What is the beautiful meaning and symbol of the Dragon Boat Festival?
The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, when the climate turns hot and insects and ants are active.time, so every Dragon Boat Festival people have to deworm.The Dragon Boat Festival also has the following beautiful meanings and symbols:praying for peace, exorcising evil, nature worship, etc.
Each festival has its own unique customs and meanings.For example, during the Dragon Boat Festival, we have to race dragon boats, eat zongzi, collect herbs, take water at noon, wash herbs, prevent kites, and entangle them.Customs such as colorful ropes, wearing sachets, etc., to a large extent reflect the meaning and symbols of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as praying for blessings and peace, exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters, and worshiping nature.
What is the connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival
1.Praying for peace and blessings:Since ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival has the connotation of praying for peace and happiness.Activities such as feasting, wearing longevity threads, painting the forehead, washing herbal water, etc., so as to pray for the safety of family members and themselves.Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is a very grand festival.Until today, we have not lowered the importance of the Dragon Boat Festival, and even set it as a legal holiday.
2.Expelling evil spirits and eliminating disasters:One of the important meanings of the Dragon Boat Festival is to avoid five poisons to exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters.So whenever the Dragon Boat Festival comes, we have to hang wormwood, calamus, stick noon time symbol, tie Baisuozi, hit noontime water, order moxa sticks, daisy, dry ginger for 100 days, hang yellow kudzu, and wear incense Bags, tie colorful ropes, wear damselflies, stick pictures of five poisons, hang pictures of Zhong Kui, drink realgar wine, etc., in order to resolve disasters and disperse insects and ants.
3.Nature worship:The Dragon Boat Festival also has the implication of nature worship, which is related to the original source of the Dragon Boat Festival.As early as in ancient times, people have been full of reverence for nature, and even on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the dragon totem and nature are sacrificed, so the folk have the custom of racing dragon boats.Until today, dragon boat racing is still one of the most important folk activities on the Dragon Boat Festival.one.
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