Introduction to Dragon Boat Festival
"Palm seeds smell fragrant, fragrant kitchen. The fragrant leaves are fragrant and fragrant. Peach branches are stuck on the door, and when you go out, you can see the wheat yellow. Duanyang here, Duanyang there, Duanyang everywhere." This nursery rhyme sings about my country's traditional festival, Dragon Boat Festival.
The fifth day of the fifth month of the agricultural calendar is a traditional folk festival in China-the Dragon Boat Festival. It is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanwu, Duanyang. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many nicknames, such as: Noon Day, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Yulan Festival, Daughter's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Dila, Poets Day, Dragon Day, etc. Although the names are different, on the whole, people's festivals in various places are more similar than different.
Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of China for more than 2,000 years. Due to the vast area, numerous ethnic groups, and many stories and legends, not only have many different festival names been produced, but also different customs have been found in various places. The main contents include: when my daughter returns to her mother's house, clocks the statue of Kui, welcomes the ghost boat, hides in the afternoon, puts on noon leaf talismans, hangs calamus and wormwood, travels to all diseases, wears fragrant sachets, prepares sacrifices, races in dragon boats, fights, hits the ball, swings, smears realgar for children, drinks male rice wine, calamus wine, eats five-poison cakes, salted eggs, rice dumplings and seasonal fruits.
There are many theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: in memory of Qu Yuan; in memory of Wu Zixu; in memory of Cao E; in memory of the Summer Solstice Festival of the Three Dynasties; in memory of the evil moon and evil day to drive away, and in memory of the Wu Yue National Totem Sacrifice. Each of the above is based on its source. According to more than 100 ancient records listed in the "Dragon Boat Festival Examination" and "Historical Education of the Dragon Boat Festival" by scholar Wen Yiduo and expert archaeological research, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival was a festival held by the Wu and Yue ethnic groups in ancient southern China, earlier than Qu Yuan. However, over the past thousands of years, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poems have been widely penetrated into people's hearts, so people "pity him and lament him, and discuss his words in the world to pass them down." Therefore, the saying of commemorating Qu Yuan has the broadest and deepest influence., occupy the mainstream position. In the field of folk culture, China people associate dragon boat racing and eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival with commemorating Qu Yuan.
To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular and grand festival among China people. Today, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday. From June 7th to 9th this year, we will be able to enjoy our first Dragon Boat Festival holiday.