What are the beautiful meanings and symbols of the Dragon Boat Festival, and what are the customs and habits?
Dragon Boat Festival is held every year The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the time when the weather turns hot and insects and ants are active, so people must expel insects every Dragon Boat Festival.The Dragon Boat Festival also has the following beautiful meanings and symbols:praying for peace, exorcising evil, nature worship, etc.
Customs and habits of the Dragon Boat Festival
Each festival has its own unique customs and meanings.For example, during the Dragon Boat Festival, we have to race dragon boats, eat rice dumplings, collect herbs, drink water at noon, wash herbs, prevent Customs such as kites, winding 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.
Praying for peace and blessings:Since ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival has the connotation of praying for peace and blessings.The ancients would gather on this day to gather together for luncheons, wear longevity threads, draw foreheads, wash herbal water and other activities., so that I can pray for the safety of my family and myself.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.
To exorcise evil spirits and eliminate 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.
What is the symbolic meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is the only major festival in summer.As an intangible cultural heritage of mankind, the Dragon Boat Festival has profound cultural connotations and great significance in contemporary times.
Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to remember and worship noble souls.The Dragon Boat Festival is a season full of life challenges, as well as a time to protect life, strengthen the soul, and invigorate the spirit.Remembering and sacrificing the sages who sacrificed their lives for the country and the people, and raising the feelings of family and country are the distinctive themes of the Dragon Boat Festival.The loyal and martyr figures represented by Qu Yuan are still the objects of worship in various places.
"The patriotic poet Qu Yuan, who said "I am sorry that people’s livelihood is so difficult, I will go up and down to find out", because of his noble personality, has become a spiritual idol commonly remembered by the Chinese people during the Dragon Boat Festival.In the Song Dynasty, Su Shi saw the scene of Qu Yuan’s hometown racing on the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan in the Three Gorges area.
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