1, eat zongzi. Zongzi is a traditional festival food in China. It appeared as a food for offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and became a festival food for the Dragon Boat Festival in the Jin Dynasty. Moral: According to folklore, Zongzi is eaten to commemorate Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river.
2. hang mugwort leaves. There is a folk saying that "willow is inserted in Qingming Festival and wormwood is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". During the Dragon Boat Festival, every household has to sweep the courtyard, put calamus and moxa sticks between their eyebrows and hang them in the hall. Moral: Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" handed down from ancient times. People clean the courtyard on this day to disinfect and prevent diseases. There are also health reasons. For example, giving children sachets and medicated baths can reduce the occurrence of exogenous diseases and make it difficult to get prickly heat.
Step on the dew. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, people lead their children to the place where wormwood grows in the wild, gently touch the dewdrop on wormwood with their hands, and wipe their eyes and face first. Moral: It is said that wormwood dew can improve eyesight, wake up and beautify. After scrubbing, adults and children are harmless this year.
Step 4 wear a flower rope. On the Dragon Boat Festival, colorful threads will be twisted into flower ropes. The flower rope will leave fragrance after rubbing with spices prepared by traditional Chinese medicine, and then adults and children will wear it on their wrists, necks and ankles, which has the effect of expelling poison and insects. Moral: It is said that wearing a flower rope can attract auspicious words.
5, the forehead is painted with the word king. On Dragon Boat Festival, draw a king with realgar on the child's forehead and forehead. Moral: the king is supreme, and all kinds of poisons do not invade and avoid it. In addition, the king is supreme, and the dragon boat festival king will have good luck.
6. Wear a sachet. The sachet made during the Dragon Boat Festival contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, which is wrapped in silk and fragrant, and then tied into various shapes with five-color silk thread. Now it has become a common handicraft. Moral: Children wear sachets during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to have the meaning of avoiding evil spirits and driving away epidemics.
7. Fly a kite. Dragon Boat Festival kites are also called paper kites. Sticking paper or silk to bamboo poles and other skeletons, and tying the long lines on them can be put into the sky when the wind blows. Children flying kites on the Dragon Boat Festival is called "disaster relief". Moral: Let the disaster pass.
8. Dragon boat race. Modern dragon boat races usually build boats into the shape of dragons, draw dragon patterns, and hold competitions every year to show respect for dragons and show that they are descendants of dragons. The moral of the Dragon Boat Festival is: pray for happiness, good weather, ward off evil spirits, be busy with disasters and all the best.
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival, originally founded by the ancestors of southern wuyue, is a festival to worship the ancestors of dragons. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5th and committed suicide. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push.
Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "Dragon Ascending to Heaven" as an auspicious day to worship the dragon ancestors, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" in summer. Dragon Boat Festival is considered as an "evil moon day", which originated in the northern part of the Central Plains to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures. The formation of the Dragon Boat Festival custom can be said to be the product of the integration of North and South customs.
Legend of Dragon Boat Festival: In Memory of Qu Yuan
In 278 BC, the capital of Chu was occupied by Qin. The country that had always supported Qu Yuan's life collapsed. Qu Yuan used to wander around the Miluo River and recite sad poems. The fisherman said to Qu Yuan, "Aren't you a doctor of the State of Chu? How did you end up in this field? " Qu yuan said: "I am in this situation because many people are dirty and only I am clean;" Many people are drunk, only I am still awake. "He went to the Miluo River in despair, threw himself into the river, showed his ambition, and died!
After the death of Qu Yuan, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. Fearing that the dragon would eat Qu Yuan's body, the fisherman took out rice balls and eggs for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river. Later, for fear that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, people came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and then wrapping it with colored silk, which developed into brown seeds.
In addition to the stories and legends commemorating Qu Yuan's eating zongzi, there are also stories and legends commemorating Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jiezitui, but the stories and legends commemorating Qu Yuan's eating zongzi are the most popular.
The above is an introduction to the customs, origins and legends of the Dragon Boat Festival. Are you clear? If you have any special place to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, please leave a message below to share ~ ~