Fengxian has always had traditional customs such as eating zongzi, wearing sachets, weaving colored ropes and frying oil cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. In order to further explore the folk customs of Fengxian and promote the Dragon Boat Festival culture, Fengxian held a dragon boat race on Fenghuang Lake, a county town of 300,000 square meters, during the small holiday. More than 65,438+0,500 local government officials, people from all walks of life and tourists participated in the competition. Relevant departments of Fengxian also held a series of activities such as rafting, Bai Zi mountaineering expedition, picking strawberries and cherries, and dancing Qiang people in Fengxian. Fengxian, the Dragon Boat Festival, is full of lively scenes.
Introduction to Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Noon Festival, Summer Festival and Pujie Festival. It was originally a festival to drive away the plague in summer. Later, Chu poet Qu Yuan threw himself into the river on the Dragon Boat Festival, which became a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan (in memory of Wu Zixu, a loyal minister of the State of Wu), as well as the Spring Festival and Pujie Festival.
According to statistics, there are more than 20 names of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Day Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Chang 'e Festival, Pujie Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Magnolia Festival, Quyuan Festival, Noon Festival, Daughter's Day, Dila Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival and Lantern Festival.
Several names of the Dragon Boat Festival are called:
The word "Duan" of the Dragon Boat Festival means "the beginning", so "Dragon Boat Festival" means "the fifth day". According to the calendar, May is the noon month, so the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually evolved into the Dragon Boat Festival. The Chronicle of Yanjing Years Old records: "The fifth day is the fifth day of May, and the transliteration of the word' Duan' is also stamped."
Duanyang Festival is midsummer according to the records of Jingchu Chronicle, because the mountain climbs in midsummer, the sun is in the sky and May is midsummer. Its first afternoon is a good day to climb mountains in the sun, so it is called Duanyang Festival on the fifth day of May.
Mid-Autumn Festival belongs to the twelve earthly branches. May of the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and five is homophonic, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in some places it is also called the May Festival.