What is the origin of Dragon Boat Festival? What are the traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival
4hw.com.cn: Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, the first great patriotic poet in China. Do you know the detailed origin of Dragon Boat Festival? We all know that the Dragon Boat Festival is to eat seeds to race the dragon boat, but do you know why the dragon boat festival commemorates Qu Yuan's eating zongzi to race the dragon boat? What other folk activities do Dragon Boat Festival have? Together
It is said that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu state were in great sorrow and rushed to Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed their boats and fished for his body on the river. A fisherman took out the rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river "plop, plop", saying that if the fish, shrimp and crab were full, they would not bite Dr Qu. People followed suit. An old doctor took a jar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying it was to make Jiaolong water animals faint, so as not to hurt Dr Qu. Later, for fear that rice balls would be eaten by Jiaolong, people thought of wrapping rice with neem leaves, wrapping colorful silk outside, and developing into brown seeds.
Later, on the fifth day of May every year, there was the custom of dragon boat race, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
Dragon Boat Festival folk activities
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese people for more than 2000 years. Due to the vast area, numerous nationalities, and many stories and legends, not only many different Festival names but also different customs are produced in different places. Its contents mainly include: the daughter goes back to her mother's home, hangs the bell Kui statue, welcomes the ghost boat, hides the noon, pastes the noon leaf Fu, hangs the calamus, the wormwood, swims the hundred diseases, wears the sachet, prepares the animal and the lily, competes the dragon boat, competes the martial arts, hits the ball, swings, paints the realgar to the child, drinks the realgar wine, the calamus wine, eats the five poison cake, the salted egg, the zongzi and the seasonal fresh fruit and so on.