In the evening, I asked my grandfather to tell me the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.
My learned grandfather used his old voice to travel through distant time and space and took me to Chu.
When Chu was in Chu, the court was corrupt and incompetent, officials were cruel to the people, and the people complained bitterly. Chu began to decline.
At that time, there was a great patriotic poet, Qu Yuan, who had great political ambitions. He wrote down the throne of the reform program several times in a row and presented it to the emperor. However, the emperor not only failed to adopt Qu Yuan's correct opinion, but also detained him ... In a desperate situation, Qu Yuan resolutely jumped into the bubbling river.
Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit touched the people. People came here one after another, rowing bamboo rafts along the river to look for Qu Yuan, but after many days of unsuccessful search, they reluctantly sprinkled some white rice into the river, hoping that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. But the rice grains are too small and easy to disperse. What if fish can't eat them? So someone thought of a way to wrap zongzi. Roll reed leaves into a pointed tube, fill it with glutinous rice, wrap it in thin lotus grass and throw it into the river, so that the fish will be full and will not eat Qu Yuan's body. ...
In order to commemorate Qu Yuan from generation to generation, people regard the fifth day of May, the day when Qu Yuan jumped into the river, as the Dragon Boat Festival.
Later, people will always remember Qu Yuan by eating zongzi and racing dragon boats. When I heard that, I couldn't help shedding tears. ...
Chapter two: The origin of the 400-word composition of Dragon Boat Festival.
Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. It is a plague-fighting festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon and Noon Festival, in summer.
Paragraph means "beginning" and "beginning". The fifth day can be called Dragon Boat Festival, which, together with Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, is called the four traditional festivals of the Han nationality in China. In the lunar calendar, the earthly branch marks the moon, the shade is built in the first month, February is the base, and May to May is noon, so May is called noon month, and "five" is connected with "noon", and "five" is also a positive number, so in some places, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called May Festival, Ai Festival and Summer Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China. The essential activities on this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, smoking Atractylodes macrocephala and Angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine, tying Cynanchum, making fragrant troughs, sticking five poisons, sticking symbols, putting yellow tobacco seeds and eating twelve reds. It is said that eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is to commemorate Qu Yuan, so after liberation, the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day" to commemorate Qu Yuan.
Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China. Since 2008, there has been a one-day holiday on National Day. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2008, this folk custom was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage list.
Chapter three: The origin of the 400-word composition of Dragon Boat Festival.
Wednesday is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Dragon Boat Festival. I got up. Today's breakfast is zongzi. Zongzi is made by wrapping glutinous rice and various fillings with Zongzi leaves and tying them with ropes. Among zongzi, I like meat stuffing best. Because the meat inside is soaked in various seasonings, it is especially delicious after steaming.
After breakfast, we went out. I saw some wormwood hanging on the door. I heard that it is used to ward off evil spirits and treat diseases. On the way, I bought a beautiful sachet from my grandmother. There are colored stripes on this sachet, and a long and beautiful lanyard is tied on it. I held it in my hand and smelled it. It has the taste of Chinese medicine. Later, I learned that there was wormwood powder in it.
According to my mother, there is another custom in the Dragon Boat Festival: dragon boat racing. Dragon boats roll on the lake like hoses. People on the dragon boat paddle hard, while others beat drums, as if urging the dragon to swim faster. Everybody, you chase after me and row hard to the finish line.
Dragon Boat Festival is a festival in memory of Qu Yuan. This is a traditional festival in China. Every one of us in China should attach importance to it.
Chapter four: The origin of the 400-word composition of Dragon Boat Festival.
China's traditional culture is like countless stars in the sky, including China's New Year greetings, Mid-Autumn Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. Now I will introduce the Dragon Boat Festival to you.
Legend has it that the king of Chu was a bad king who only cared about eating, drinking and having fun, but Qu Yuan said it was useless and threw himself into the river. When he jumped into the river, he was still holding a big stone, because later he sank into the river and could never get up.
After Qu Yuan jumped into the river, people on both sides rowed dragon boats to save Qu Yuan. People searched everywhere in Jiangdu, but they still couldn't find Qu Yuan's body. At this tense and dangerous moment, suddenly a citizen stepped forward. He said that we can't live without Qu Yuan. Take it easy. We can throw things that fish and shrimp like, such as zongzi, realgar wine and eggs into the river. ...
Since then, people have regarded this day as the Dragon Boat Festival. When people arrive at the Dragon Boat Festival, they row dragon boats, eat zongzi and drink realgar wine.
With the passage of time, traditional culture has been handed down slowly.