What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival? Race dragon boats and eat zongzi
Dragon Boat Festival customs include racing dragon boats, eating zongzi, hanging wormwood and so on.Legend has it that the people of Chu people used dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan’s body.When the ancients raced dragon boats, they set up a fish mark, a duck mark and an iron mark at the finish line.In order to allow the contestants to see the finish line from a distance, the ancients also used brocade bows on the three markers.
Dragon Boat Festival Customs and customs
1.Eating rice dumplings
In ancient times, people from Jingchu would cook glutinous rice or steam rice dumplings and throw them into the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month., In order to fear that the fish will eat it, people come up with the idea of wrapping rice with zong leaves and wrapping colored silk on the outside.Later, eating zongzi became the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.In old Beijing, zongzi was made of rice, yellow rice and jujube, commonly known as "two-meter zongzi".
2.Picking up a dragon boat
It is said that the people of Chu country used dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river, so as to prevent the fish from eating Qu Yuan’s body.When the ancients raced dragon boats, they set up a fish mark, a duck mark and an iron mark at the finish line.Whoever got these three marks won the first, second and third place.In order to allow the contestants to see the finish line from a distance, the ancients would also use brocade bows on the three markers.
3.Hanging mugwort
In the Dragon Boat Festival, people take mugwort and calamus as one of the important contents.Every household should sweep the courtyard, insert calamus and moxa sticks on the eyebrows of the door, and hang them in the hall.And use calamus, mugwort leaves, pomegranate flower, garlic head, dragon boat flower to make a human or tiger shape, called Airen and Aihu; make garlands, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, and women compete to wear them to drive away miasmas.
4.Eat Wudu Cakes
Dragon Boat Festival is approaching the summer solstice, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, bacteria breed, and people are prone to heat stroke and sickness.The five poisons refer to scorpions, toads, geckos, centipedes, and snakes.The ancients put their images on the cakes, and the fillings are also "five fillings":cherries, water chestnuts, mulberries, yellow apricots and Jiangmi lotus.It is said that eating the five-poison cake can enhance resistance, eliminate insects and avoid disasters.
What is the meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival
Duanwu is also called Duanwu, and the meaning of "Duan" is the same as that of "Chu".The word "five" in Duanwu is also related to "wu".According to the order of the earthly branches, May is the month of "wu".Because noon is "Yangchen", Duanwu is also called "Duanyang".On the fifth day of the fifth month, the month and the day are both five, so the weight of five is also called noon.In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many other names, such as:Summer Festival, Yulan Festival, Girls’ Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Dila, Poet’s Festival and so on.Regarding the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are at least four or five theories today, such as:the theory of commemorating Qu Yuan; the theory of Wu and Yue national totem sacrifices; the theory that it originated from the Summer Solstice Festival of the Three Dynasties; So far, the most influential point of view on the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan.In the field of folk culture, Chinese people associate the dragon boat racing and eating rice dumplings with Qu Yuan on the Dragon Boat Festival.Legend has it that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the local people injured him to death, so they tried their best to rescue him by boat, because of the custom of racing; it is also said that people often put food into the water to sacrifice Qu Yuan, but most of them were eaten by dragons, and only neem was used because of Qu Yuan’s prompting.The leaves are wrapped in rice and wrapped with colored silk to make the later dumplings.
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