What are the meanings of hanging eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival?
The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most grand traditional festivals.On this day, people want to race dragon boats, eat zongzi, hang wormwood, hang eggs, etc.Among them, the meaning of hanging eggs on the Dragon Boat Festival is as follows:pray for good fortune and disasters, bless children"s safety and so on.
"The Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is also called the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth lunar month.It is the same day as the summer solstice." We hold various activities to celebrate.Now we have to rest on statutory holidays and celebrate festivals according to folk customs, such as dragon boat racing, eating rice dumplings, drinking realgar wine, hanging wormwood, hanging egg pockets, etc.Among them, hanging egg pockets, that is, hanging eggs, have disaster means.
What is the origin of hanging egg pockets on the Dragon Boat Festival
It is recorded in folklore and legends that whenever the Dragon Boat Festival comes, the god of plague in the sky will come down to the earth, especially Children are the most vulnerable, so around the Dragon Boat Festival, there will always be children who are bedridden with fever.Later, people went to Nuwa Temple to burn incense and pray.After hearing people"s prayers, Nuwa went to the God of Plague, and asked the God of Plague to spare the child with an egg pocket around her neck, falsely claiming that it was Nuwa"s direct child.Therefore, whenever the Dragon Boat Festival comes, people will hang an egg pocket around the neck of the child, which contains boiled salted duck eggs or eggs.This is the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival hanging egg pocket.
What to hang on the Dragon Boat Festival to dispel disasters
There are many folk customs on the Dragon Boat Festival, such as eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, flying kites, Dai Cangshu, hiding the Dragon Boat Festival, playing polo, fighting grass and many more.And because the Dragon Boat Festival is the time when five poisonous and insect pests are rampant, people have to remove disasters and pray for blessings.Generally, they use methods such as hanging egg pockets, hanging wormwood, hanging calamus, hanging colorful ropes, wearing damselfly, and sticking noon time symbols.achieve the purpose of prayer.Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival has always been a grand festival that has attracted much attention.
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