The dragon boat festival is coming, red pomegranate flowers are full of mountain village.
The poet ate two jiao zong zi, and the Gao Guan was on the Mugwort.
Today is June 3, 2022,
The fifth day of May in Renyin year.
Another year of Dragon Boat Festival.
Green mountains and green waters are full of warehouses.
Dragon Boat Festival, the memory of song and rain changes across tang style, has experienced the changes of the Chinese dynasty, with the heroic dragon boat race and the noise of fishing drums contending, as if it were an ancient girl, swaying from the reeds, touching Tsing Yi, leisurely walking towards us.
In midsummer, the sun is shining in the afternoon, the mountains are green and the birds are singing.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, when you climb high and look far, or watch the dragon boat race on the river, or taste the holiday food all over, I only hope that the time will be quiet and live up to the long years.
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Dragon Boat Festival Source
Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year.
According to the Records of Jingchu’s Years, it is recorded that it is midsummer when the sun is on the mountain in midsummer, and it is midsummer in May. Its first afternoon is the day when it is sunny to climb the mountain in the sun, so the fifth day of May is also called Duanyang Festival.
In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Noon Festival, the May Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Bathing Orchid Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle.
There are many explanations about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. The most famous one is in memory of Qu Yuan, a doctor of Chu State.
According to legend, the king of Chu listened to rumors and exiled Qu Yuan, who advocated anti-Qin.
After the state of Qin invaded the capital of Chu, desperate Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River with a big stone in his arms.
It is this feeling of home and country that makes Qu Yuan remembered for a long time.
In addition, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival also includes Wu Zixu’s outspoken coachable, and Cao E, the filial daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty, who threw herself into the river to die for her father.
Dragon Boat Festival is a festival full of poetic and patriotic traditions, whether it’s doctor Qu Yuan of Chu who doesn’t want to drag out an ignoble existence or Wu Zixu who speaks bluntly about coachable.
This kind of quality of standing up for the rise and fall of the country, being steadfast and unyielding is our most extensive spiritual sustenance for the Dragon Boat Festival, and it has also painted the background color of the Chinese nation’s feelings about home and country.
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Dragon Boat Festival Customs
Throughout the ages, people use zongzi, dragon boat, calamus, wormwood, angelica dahurica and realgar wine to make the festival flourish.
Writer Wang Zengqi said: "Folk custom is a collective lyric poem of a nation."
Yes, no matter how busy a person is on weekdays, as long as it comes to festivals, he will become affectionate and romantic, and even his pace will slow down a lot.
Festivals of our Chinese nation are as colorful as spring flowers, which are dotted with plain life and make our days lively and fragrant.
offer sacrifices to ancestors
Sacrificial rites play a supreme role in the Five Rites of China. Rites of past dynasties and official rites and music all take the ritual ceremony as the first place in accordance with the Zhengshuo Zhou system. Sacrificing Qu Yuan, a patriotic sage, on the Dragon Boat Festival is a sign of respect, a feeling and a memory.
dragon boat race
In ancient times, Chu people were reluctant to give up their sage Qu Yuan’s death by throwing himself into the river, and many people rowed to catch up and save. They scrambled to catch up with each other and disappeared when they reached Dongting Lake.
After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Dispel the fish in the river by rowing dragon boats, so as not to eat Qu Yuan’s body. The habit of racing is prevalent in Wu, Yue and Chu.
dragon dance
Dragon dancing, also known as "playing with dragon lanterns", comes from people’s worship of dragons. In Chinese’s mind, dragons are auspicious spirits and masters of weathering rain.
In ancient times, dragon dances were performed during festive festivals. Later, this custom has continued to this day and has become an activity of Chinese traditional folk culture. Up to now, people will still pray for peace and good luck in the form of dragon dancing at the Dragon Boat Festival.
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival
People in Jingchu cooked glutinous rice or steamed rice cakes and threw them into the river on May 5th to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan. Many people love to wrap red dates in zongzi, which is homophonic as "early middle school", meaning that children who are studying can win the first prize early.
You must cook eggs in the pot where zongzi is cooked, and if possible, you should cook some duck eggs and goose eggs. After eating sweet zongzi dipped in sugar, you should eat eggs dipped in salt.
It is said that eating boiled eggs in the Dragon Boat Festival in May will not cause sores in summer; Put the duck eggs and goose eggs cooked in the zongzi pot in the sun at noon for a while before eating, so that you won’t have a headache all summer.
Peixiangnang
Wearing sachets is also one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that it means to ward off evil spirits and drive away plague. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, and it is wrapped with new silk cloth, which is full of fragrance, and then tied with five-color silk threads to form a rope, which can be made into different shapes.
In ancient times, sachets were also used as a symbol of life-saving and good luck.
Because sachets are hand-sewn, each stitch and thread contains a lot of deep affection. It is a sincere intention to give them as gifts. Nowadays, sachet has become a unique folk handicraft of Dragon Boat Festival.
Hanging wormwood and calamus
A folk proverb says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival, and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". It’s midsummer, the climate in the north and south is hot and humid, snakes and scorpions are infested, epidemics are prevalent, and people are threatened by the harsh living environment. It is everyone’s wish to look forward to the smooth and safe life, which is also the initial reason why the Dragon Boat Festival is highlighted.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, calamus and moxa sticks are inserted into the door eyebrows; Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Liuhua, Bulbus Allii, and Dragon Boat Flower are hung in the hall in human form or tiger shape, and can also be made into garlands as ornaments to ward off evil spirits.
Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" handed down from ancient times. On this day, people sweep the courtyard, hang mugwort, hang calamus, drink realgar wine and light cinnabar to sterilize and prevent diseases. These activities also reflect the fine traditions of the Chinese nation.
Dianzhusha
Put cinnabar on children’s foreheads during the Dragon Boat Festival, which means that children are healthy and safe. Painting the word "Wang" on a child’s forehead symbolizes expelling disasters and plagues for the child, symbolizing happiness and auspiciousness.
Style dance
The origin of style dance can be traced back to the ancient East in the Neolithic Age. People found a tall fig tree in the forest, peeled it, tied colorful ribbons at one end of the tree and decorated it with garlands.
The other end stands on the ground, and everyone wraps the trunk with ribbons according to certain dance steps and rhythms. When the music is over, the trunk becomes a beautiful style.
Later, people danced stylized dances to worship tree gods and grain gods to celebrate agricultural harvest and the coming of spring. Colorful ribbons represented colorful blessings.
Bolt five-color silk thread
Ying Shao’s "Custom Pass" records: "On May 5th, people tied their arms with multicolored silk, named Long Life Silk, one who continued life silk, one who ordered soldiers to fight, one who ordered five colors silk, and one who ordered Zhu Suo to fight soldiers and ghosts, so that people would not get sick."
It is said that children wearing five-color lines can avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions; Throwing it into the river means letting the river wash away plagues and diseases, so that children can be safe and healthy.
It is also said that on the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival, cutting off colorful threads and throwing them in the rain will bring you good luck for a year.
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Dragon Boat Festival Message
A lifetime, a few years in a hurry.
Only cherishing every day of life is the best awe and respect for life.
Cherishing every festival is the inheritance and promotion of a traditional culture, the love of an ancient custom and custom, and the precipitation and feelings for a special day.
In fact, every festival has an extraordinary experience, which will have a special meaning.
The reason why we continue these festivals year after year is a kind of remembrance, a kind of yearning, that is, to remember the past, be grateful for everything we have today and love life better.
In the Dragon Boat Festival, a festival with long thoughts, let’s slow down and feel the calmness and comfort of life. Let wandering souls and tired hearts rest and comfort; Let life be more warm and happy, and the days are more and more happy and sweet!
A leaf of rice dumplings, wrapped in continuous feelings, a handful of wormwood, inserted with longing and expectation!
Today’s Dragon Boat Festival, I hope everyone can taste the sweetness of time. Peace and well-being in midsummer days.
Click [Like], I wish you flowers in your skirt, and the years are clear and affectionate. May this world be prosperous, everything be smooth and healthy!
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Original title: "Today’s Dragon Boat Festival, I wish you all the best, joy and peace, and live up to the years."
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