The Dragon Boat Festival and the Qingming Festival, are very particular, the Dragon Boat Festival can not say happy, to say the Dragon Boat Festival is healthy, so you know what to wear on the Dragon Boat Festival? Why the Dragon Boat Festival with colorful rope? Let's take a look!
What do you wear on Dragon Boat Festival?
1. [Dai Xiangbao]: the most distinctive ornament of the Dragon Boat Festival is Xiangbao. Children wearing sachets are said to have the meaning of avoiding evil and driving away plague. Sachets made of medicinal plants with various flavors can also prevent diseases. On the Dragon Boat Festival, children wear sachets, which not only have the meaning of avoiding evil and driving away plague, but also have the wind of embellishment. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine. It is wrapped with silk cloth. The fragrance is overflowing. Then it is made of five color silk thread. It is made into a string of different shapes. It is exquisite and eye-catching.
There are various formulas for the sachets of the Dragon Boat Festival. In addition to aroma, the selected materials must have antiviral effect. But some of the traditional Chinese medicine formula is very strong, do not smell close. In fact, the Dragon Boat Festival sachet, with AI as the main ingredient is very good. If you want a better effect, then add some kitchen seasoning, convenient, simple, safe and reliable.
2. Dai AI Hu: according to the local records of the Jin Dynasty, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood with anti insect effect is woven into the shape of a human, or woven into the shape of a tiger, or cut into the shape of a tiger with colored cloth, and then pasted with Wormwood Leaves. The objects woven or cut out in this way are called AI Hu.
On the day of Dragon Boat Festival, women wear "Ai Hu" on their hair, while men wear "Ai Hu" or "Pu Jian" on their chest or waist. It is believed that this will prevent the invasion of evil drugs and ensure their health.
3. [wearing tiger head cap]: in Haining, in addition to dragon boat race and wrapping rice dumplings, grandma and uncle also have an important task, that is, to prepare tiger head cap and tiger clothes for their new-born nephew, who will send them to their daughter's home before the Dragon Boat Festival. In the days of Dragon Boat Festival, every family puts on tiger hats and tiger clothes for children.
People are weak in the face of natural forces and natural phenomena, and they don't understand diseases. They think it's demons and ghosts. In order to exorcise evil spirits, they use tiger's head cap and tiger's clothes to resist invisible demons. In the book of rites and customs, it is said: "tiger is a kind of masculine thing, which is also the best of all animals. It can fight and defeat sharp, and eat ghosts. In the traditional concept, the tiger is regarded as a auspicious animal, which can suppress and exorcise evil spirits. Therefore, it is popular for people to wear tiger hats and tiger clothes to avoid the evil of May.
4. [Dai Wudu pocket]: Wudu pocket refers to the belly pocket embroidered with five kinds of poisonous insect patterns, such as snake, scorpion, centipede, gecko and toad. Most of them are hand embroidered with pure red cotton base material and colorful embroidery thread, which means that the five poisons do not invade, healthy and safe.
On the day of Dragon Boat Festival, children should bring "five poison bags" with embroidered pictures of five poisons on them, which means to fight against poisons with poisons to ensure their health. A mother or grandmother will put a warm egg in her pocket, or roll it on a child's stomach several times with a warm egg, and say 'no stomachache for a year' while doing it.
5. [with gourd]
The Dragon Boat Festival with gourd has always been a custom, children, adults wear gourd, not only to ward off evil, but also to decorate the wind. The gourd with the traditional cultural meaning of "fortune" can turn the anger into peace and enhance the aura of fortune.
The branches' vines' of gourd are homonymous with ten thousand. Each mature gourd has many gourd seeds. The Han people associate it with 'the prosperity and auspiciousness of future generations'; the gourd is homonymous with' Hulu 'and' Fulu '. In addition, it has different shapes and beautiful shapes. It can give people a happy and peaceful aesthetic feeling without artificial carving. The ancients believed that it can drive away disasters and evil spirits, pray for happiness, and make future generations prosperous.
Why do you need colorful rope on Dragon Boat Festival. In ancient China, five colors were worshipped as auspicious colors. Ying Shao's "Customs General" records: "on May 5, he tied his arms with multicolored silk, named Changming thread, named Xuming thread, named Bibing tie, named wuse thread, named Zhusuo, named Bibing and ghost, and ordered people not to get sick and pestilence.".
Bundle line, is the colorful silk thread wrapped in children's wrists, ankles and neck, in order to avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions. Yantai is similar to other places in terms of name, but there are some differences in dialect pronunciation, such as' zhazussu ',' gelusu ',' zhazhangmingzou ', and so on. It is said that children are forbidden to speak when tying the thread, and the five colored thread can not be broken or discarded at will. It can only be thrown into the river during the first heavy rain or bath in summer, which means that the river will wash away the plague and disease.