4hw.com.cn: we all know that one of the traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival is to eat zongzi, and the second is to row dragon boats. In fact, there are not only two customs of Dragon Boat Festival, but also customs in different regions of China, so there are various customs of Dragon Boat Festival. So what are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival? What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in your hometown? What are the special meanings of these customs? Let's learn about them with Xiaobian.
What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival
What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon boat racing is one of the customs of China's Dragon Boat Festival, and also one of the most important festival folk activities of the Dragon Boat Festival. It is common in southern China. There are also dragon boat racing customs in cities near rivers and lakes in the north, and most of them are in the form of rowing dry dragon boats and dancing dragon boats.
There are many sayings about the origin of dragon boat racing, such as offering sacrifices to Cao'e, Qu Yuan, water god or Dragon God, which can be traced back to the Warring States period. Dragon boat racing has been introduced to neighboring countries Japan, Vietnam and the United Kingdom, which is the official event of the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.
What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival -- zongzi
Zongzi is the traditional custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to historical records, eating zongzi originated from the spring and Autumn period and the Warring States period. People gradually handed it down in memory of Qu Yuan, the official of the Chu state. Until now, at the beginning of May every year, Chinese people have to soak glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves and wrap zongzi, with a wide variety of designs and colors.
The earliest record of zongzi is "fengshiji" written by the governor ZhouChu of Xinping in the Western Jin Dynasty 1600 years ago, which says: 'in the middle of the Dragon Boat Festival, people cook millet and scramble for it. '
"Qu Yuan died in Miluo on May 5, when Chu people mourned it, so they stored rice in bamboo tubes and sacrificed it in water," said Wu Jun, a writer of Liang Dynasty in the book of Qi Qikai. 'then they spread the false and became common. It can be seen that people are deeply in love with loyal people. Zongzi didn't come from the sacrifice of Qu Yuan. There are many origins of zongzi.
As early as in the spring and Autumn period, rice was wrapped with wild rice leaves (Zizania latifolia) into horn shape, which was called jiaoshu; rice was sealed and baked with bamboo tube, which was called zongzi. In the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, millet was soaked in grey water of plants and trees. Because of the alkali content in the water, millet was wrapped in wild rice leaves to form a quadrangular shape and cooked to become an alkaline rice dumpling in Guangdong Province.
What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival -- Mulan soup
Mulan soup is a hygienic custom of Dragon Boat Festival in China. First of all, a woman in a Chinese dress carries a basin of AI Ye water. People line up to the main sacrifice in turn. The main sacrifice dips the water in the basin with calamus grass, and gently wipes the hands, forehead and neck of the participants to dispel the bad luck.
What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival
Hanging Acorus calamus with wormwood leaf is a Chinese folk festival custom. On the Dragon Boat Festival, the wormwood leaf is hung in the hall, and the tiger shape or color cutting is a small tiger, and the wormwood leaf is pasted on it. Women compete to wear it and drive away malaria with secluded evils. Use calamus as a sword and insert it into the door couch. It has the magical effect of exorcism.
On Dragon Boat Festival, every family uses calamus, mugwort leaf, durian flower, garlic and dragon boat flower to make human shape, which is called mugwort and mugwort. It is made into garland and ornament. It is beautiful and fragrant. Women compete to wear it to drive away malaria.
There is a folk saying: 'insert willows in the Qingming Festival and AI in the Dragon Boat Festival'. On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard the planting of Artemisia and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family swept the courtyard and put calamus and moxa sticks on the eyebrows of the gate and hung in the hall.
What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival
Old Dragon Boat Festival women's headdress. It is more common in Jiangnan. Some areas are also called healthy people. This theory originated from the ancient Bu Yao, which is another form of AI people.
"Qing Jialu" quoted "Tang and Song Dynasty heritage" as saying: 'who is the north and south of the river? Five days later, the hairpin head was made to win the lottery. All of them make Wormwood Leaves by bamboo, or gather and embroider fairy, Buddha, he, Wu, insect, fish, all kinds of animals, Babao group flowers and so on. Crepe spider, grain Phoenix, cocoon tiger rongtuo, grass arranging lizard, praying spider, cicada and scorpion, gourd, melon and fruit, color lifelike. It is also called douniang. It can't win the period. '
What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival
Multicolored thread is also called multicolored thread. In ancient times, it was also called multicolored long life thread. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival for girls. It was the Chinese daughter's day. It's an ancient custom in Song Dynasty. Use red, green, yellow, white, black thick silk thread to twist it into a colorful rope, which is tied on the girl's arm and neck. It's called long life thread and continuous life thread. In the song of five days in the imperial capital by Yu Youding, a man of Ming Dynasty, it is said that "five silk lives can be continued", which refers to this custom. According to the book of Customs by Ying Shao of Han Dynasty: 'on May 5, it was named long life thread with five colors of silk as its arm. Later generations are also called 'life extending wisps'. According to this, it has been two thousand years since this custom directly inherited the Han Dynasty. It is a traditional custom to take five colored silk threads and twist them on the children's arms. From May 5 to July 7, the seventh mother's birthday, they were untied and burned together with the golden papyrus. There is also a saying that on the first rainy day after the Dragon Boat Festival, cutting the colorful thread and throwing it in the rain will bring you a year of good luck. The colorful thread is called "five colored thread", "Zhu Suo", "Bai Suo" and so on, which are necessary items for the Dragon Boat Festival.