How to taste the Dragon Boat Festival and inherit the civilization of Dragon Boat Festival.
The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is a traditional festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival. For more than 2,000 years, the Dragon Boat Festival has been a festival to commemorate the folk customs of all ethnic groups in China. From rowing dragon boats, eating zongzi and inserting calamus in ancient times to today’s national fitness, epidemic prevention, dispelling diseases, expelling heat and praying for health, many ancient customs have been completely passed down, and new good wishes have been added at the same time.
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Every Dragon Boat Festival, the first thing that comes to our mind is to eat zongzi-sweet, salty, meaty and vegetarian. It can be said that every family has its own housekeeping skills, and every place has its own preferences.
The reason why Zongzi can be used as the representative food of the Dragon Boat Festival is to throw it into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from biting Qu Yuan’s body. Second, it is because the edges and corners of zongzi are like a knife, which can eradicate diseases and disasters.
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival not only carries the feelings of home and country, but also contains the deep feelings of family and friends getting together. Zongzi is known as one of the traditional foods with the deepest historical and cultural accumulation in China.
Do you know the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival?
When it comes to the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, Qu Yuan is probably the first thing that comes to mind. According to legend, the king of Chu listened to slanderous rumors and exiled Qu Yuan. After Qin conquered the capital of Chu, the desperate Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River with a big stone in his arms. After the death of Qu Yuan, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay their respects to Qu Yuan, and there was a custom of dragon boat race and eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Do you know all the names of the Dragon Boat Festival?
The record of local customs in the Western Jin Dynasty contains "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival". The end, the beginning. " This is the earliest origin of the word "Dragon Boat Festival".
There are many names for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as Duanyang, Yulan Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Tianzhong Festival and so on.
But what many people don’t know is that the Dragon Boat Festival also has the nickname "Daughter’s Day". In ancient times, from the first day of May to the fifth day of May, every family dressed up their girls and folded a pomegranate hairpin on their heads. This is considered as a ritual to avoid the "poison" in May and pray for the health of girls at home. Even if the daughter in the family grows up and marries, she will go back to her mother’s house to spend the holidays with her parents. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Daughter’s Day".
How much do you know about the custom of Dragon Boat Festival?
Besides eating zongzi, there are many customs in the Dragon Boat Festival. How much do you know?
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Legend has it that in ancient times, the gods had an agreement with the water monster, so long as people hung wormwood and calamus in front of their doors, the water monster should not be offended, so people liked to pick and hang wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival, hoping to dispel demons and defend their families.
Wormwood itself has the functions of dispelling cold and removing dampness, warming meridians and stopping bleeding, and its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil, which can repel mosquitoes and flies and purify the air. The smoke produced by the smoking of mugwort leaves can inhibit the spread of viruses and bacteria in the air.
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Qu Yuan threw himself into the river with hatred, and the people of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of his sage Qu Yuan, so many people rowed to catch up and save, which was the origin of the dragon boat race, and thus the dragon boat race became one of the most traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, the dragon boat race is an annual feast that can’t be missed. The "Hey Yo" sound of Qi Xin’s rowing inspires the players and the people watching the battle on the shore.
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The ancients also wore sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival. In order to scent, repel insects and avoid plague, sachets were often filled with some traditional Chinese medicines with the function of "fragrant filth", such as clove, angelica dahurica, Pogostemon, perilla, mint, etc., which can refresh the mind, invigorate the spirit, dredge the nine orifices and prevent plague.
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In ancient times, people were superstitious that the Dragon Boat Festival was the most unlucky and poisonous day of the year. Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival, every household should wear colorful ropes on their children’s wrists, that is, ropes made of five kinds of colored lines, namely red, yellow, blue, green and purple, to ward off evil spirits, drive away plague and turn good luck into good luck.
Dragon Boat Festival carries people.
Memories of sages
The pursuit of health
Prevention and treatment of diseases
Expectation for a better life
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I wish you all.
Wish you peace and health on Dragon Boat Festival!
Original title: "Dragon Boat Festival, Taste Dragon Boat Festival and Inherit Civilization"
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