Heart as glutinous rice, the more sticky tight.
Love, such as Zongye, more cooked more fragrant.
Happy like a ray, infinite extension.
Happy like a ray, infinite extension. "Dumplings incense, fragrant kitchen, leaves incense, incense full house, peach branches inserted in the door, go out looking for wheat yellow ... ..."
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month for the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the end of the festival, May Festival, five days festival, is the traditional Chinese festivals. Earlier recorded in the "Jing Chu years when the record", because the midsummer high, Shunyang on, May is the midsummer, it is the first afternoon is climbing Shunyang good weather day, so that the fifth day of May "Duanyang Festival". Dragon Boat Festival and many aliases, such as "Bath Lan Festival", "daughter festival", "fairy festival", "day festival" and so on, and folk customs are related to some of the details of life.
Dragon Boat Festival custom
Dragon Boat Race
Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival is the main customs. According to legend, originated in ancient times Chu people can not wait for the son of Qu Yuan Zhijun died, many people rowing to catch up with salvation. They scrambled to catch up with the Dongting Lake when no trace. After each year on May 5 draw a dragon boat to commemorate the. By the dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river, so that fish eat Qu Yuan's body. The study of the race, popular in Wu, Yue, Chu.
Jiangsu and Zhejiang region designated dragon boat, both to commemorate the local birth of modern women democratic revolutionary Qiu Jin meaning. Night dragon boat, the lights knot, from the shuttle, underwater water, the scene moving, unique fun. Guizhou Miao people in the lunar calendar May 25 to 28 held the "Dragon Boat Festival" to celebrate the seedling victory and wish the grain bumper harvest. Yunnan Dai compatriots in the splashing water festival dragon boat, to commemorate the ancient hero rock red nest. Different nationalities, different regions, the legend of the dragon boat is different. Until today in the south of a lot of Riverside rivers and lakes of the region, the annual end of the festival should be full of their own characteristics of the dragon boat race.
Qing Emperor Qianlong twenty years (1736), Taiwan began to hold dragon boat race. At that time, Taiwan's prefect Jiang Yuanjun in Tainan City Fahua Temple half moon pool hosted a friendly match. Taiwan is now held every year on May 5 Dragon Boat Race. In Hong Kong, also held a cross. In addition, the designated dragon boat has also passed into neighboring Japan, Vietnam and the United Kingdom. In 1980, the dragon boat race was included in the Chinese national sports competition project, and held every year, "Qu Yuan Cup" dragon boat race. June 16, 1991 (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), in Qu Yuan's second hometown of China's Hunan Yueyang City, held the first international dragon boat festival. Before the race, held a "faucet" that preserves traditional rituals and injects new modern factors. "Leading" was carried into the Quzi Temple, the athletes to the leading "red" (red band), the main priest read the ritual, and for the leading "light" (that is, clear). Then, to participate in the dragon all the three bow, the leader was carried to the Miluo River, toward the dragon boat stadium. The participation of the competition, trade fairs and festivals as many as 60 million people, can be described as unprecedented. Later, Hunan will regularly hold the International Dragon Boat Festival. The dragon boat will be rumored to the world.
Dragon Boat Festival dumplings
Dragon Boat Festival eat dumplings, this is another traditional Chinese customs. Dumplings, also known as "angle millet", "tube dumplings". Its long-standing, many tricks. Dragon Boat Festival in the morning to eat dumplings commemorate Qu Yuan, generally the day before the dumplings wrapped in the night cooked, morning food. Package dumplings are mainly used in the river pond rich in tender grass reed leaves, some areas are also useful bamboo leaves, collectively referred to as Zongye. The traditional form of dumplings for the triangle, generally based on the flesh named, wrapped glutinous rice called rice dumplings, rice mixed with small beans called small bean dumplings, mixed with dates called dates dumplings, collectively known as glutinous rice dumplings. Jujube dumplings for the "early in the morning", so eat more dates, intended to read the children can eat early in the champion. Past scholars to participate in the imperial examination of the day, the morning to eat dates dumplings, so far high school, college entrance examination day morning, and some parents have to do dates to eat dumplings.
Wear sachets
Dragon Boat Festival children suffering from sachets, the legend of evil spirits of the meaning of evil, is actually used for lapel embellishment decoration. Sachet with cinnabar, realgar, incense, outsourcing to silk cloth, fragrance overflowing, and then to the colored silk thread chuck into a cable, for a variety of different shapes, form a string, all kinds of small, cute, has now become a Universal crafts. In some southern Chinese cities, young men and women also use the sachet to express the deep love.
Hanging in love
Minyan said: "Qingming Liu Liu, Dragon Boat Festival Ai". In the Dragon Boat Festival, people to insert Ai and calamus as one of the important content. Every household should sweep the courtyard, to calamus, moxa inserted in the eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And the use of calamus, leaves, garlic, garlic, dragon boat flowers, made of humanoid or tiger-shaped, known as Ai, Ai Hu; made wreath, ornaments, beautiful fragrance, women competing to wear, to drive miasma. Dragon Boat Festival is also from the ancient times, "Health Festival", people in this day sweeping the garden, hanging Ai Zhi, hanging iris, sprinkle male water, drink male rice wine, turbid in addition to rot, sterilization disease prevention. These activities also reflect the fine tradition of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival on the mountain medicine, it is a common national customs of our country.
Hanging Zhong Kui like
Zhong Kui catch the ghost, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom. In the Jianghuai area, every family is hanging Zhong Kui like to use the town house exorcism. Tang Minghuang Kaiyuan, since Li Shan Wu Wu Gong, malaria big hair, dream of two ghosts, a big one small, little devil wear red crotch pants, steal Yang Gui's sachet and emperor's flute, around the house and run. Big ghosts wear blue robe wearing a hat, catch the little devil, dig their eyes, swallowed. Ming Huang drink to ask, big ghosts played: Chen surname, that is, Wuju is not the first, is willing to His Majesty in addition to the demons, Ming Huang wake up, malaria recovered, so that the artist Wu Daozi, according to the dream seen in the bell Portrait, the order of the world in the Dragon Boat Festival, all posted to drive demons.
Hanging pockets and embraced colored silk
Should be Shao "customs" records: "May 5, to Wu Cai silk arm, the name of longevity, a continued life, a Pops, a five-color, a Zhu Su, the provision of troops and Ghost, life is not disease plague. " Ancient Chinese revered five colors, with auspicious color for the color. Thus, the early morning holiday, each adult to get up after the first event is in the child's wrist, ankle, neck tied to the colored line. When the line line, taboo children speak. Five-color line can not be arbitrarily broken or discarded, only in the summer when the first heavy rain or the first bath, thrown into the river. It is said that wearing a five-color line of children can avoid the snake scorpion poisonous insects; thrown into the river, which means that the river will plague, the disease washed away, children can be safe and healthy.
Meng Yuan-lao's "Tokyo Dream China Record" Volume eight records: Dragon Boat Festival, 100 cable, Ai flowers, silver-like drums, flowers and flowers fan, candy fruit, dumplings small, white group. Basil, calamus, papaya, and all edible, with the incense and phase, with plum box filled. From May 1 and the day before the Dragon Boat Festival, selling peach, willow, sunflower, Po leaves, Buddha Road Ai. The next day at home in front of the first shop, and colored water group, tea wine support. And nail a man on the door, Shishu pay the feast.
Chen Yuan Liang's "Year of the mind" cited "old age miscellanies" refers to a "five to red and white made such as the capsule to color line through, twitch so that the flower-shaped, or belt or nail on the mouth, , Also that the twitch money. And the other "mussels pink bell": "the end of five days to mussel powder Na silk, decorated with cotton, if the number of beads. So that children with the sweat also." These carry the contents of the bag several changes, from Sweat of the mussel powder, exorcism of the spirit of the character, coins, worms of the realgar powder, developed into a spice filled with spices, production is also increasingly refined, a unique Dragon Festival folk art. There are also like drinking wine: this custom, in the Yangtze River Valley area is very popular. Travel: This custom, popular in the Guizhou region of the Dragon Boat Festival customs.
Point of male wine
Realgar is also a medicine, it is said to kill Bacon. So in the Dragon Boat Festival, the Shaanxi people will be soaked in the wine in the wine, the child's ears, nose, forehead, wrist, ankle, etc. cast a realgar wine, it is said that this practice can make mosquitoes, snakes, scorpions, centipedes, Gecko, spider and so on.
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