The Dragon Boat Festival is a very important traditional festival in China, but many people may forget it. Besides the Dragon Boat Festival, it has many other names. Let's take a look at the nicknames of the Dragon Boat Festival with Xiaobian? Why is the dragon boat festival called daughter's day?
What other name does the Dragon Boat Festival have
Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, May Festival, daughter's day, etc. it is said that there are more than 20 nicknames of Dragon Boat Festival, but now we don't know much about other nicknames. We only know that it is called Dragon Boat Festival.
In addition to this familiar title, there are more than 20 other titles for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as Duanwu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, dangwuxun Festival, Tianzhong Festival, summer festival, May Festival, Chang Festival, Pu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Yulan Festival, Qu Yuan day, Wu day, daughter's day, Dila Festival, poet's day, dragon day, Wu day, Lantern Festival Five egg Festival and so on.
Dragon Boat Festival
According to the records of Jingchu's age, the first afternoon of May is the day when the weather is good, so it is called the "Dragon Boat Festival" on the fifth day of May.
Double Ninth Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Double Ninth Festival" or "Double Fifth Festival". In some places, it is also called the "May Festival".
Tianzhong Festival
The ancients believed that on May 5, Yang Chongren Zhongtian, so it was called 'Tianzhong Festival'.
Yulan Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer. It is a season of frequent skin diseases. The ancients used orchid soup to bathe and decontaminate. The Han Dynasty's "big Dai Li" said: 'bathe in orchid soup at noon'.
Jiezong Festival
When the ancients ate zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a game to compare the length of each person's zongzi leaves and the elderly as the winner, so it was also known as the "zongzi Festival".
Daughter's Day
Ming Shen Bang's miscellaneous notes of the Wan Department: "on the May daughter's day, it is the Dragon Boat Festival rope, wearing Wormwood Leaves and five poison talismans. Wan vulgar, from the first day to the fifth day of May, plays the role of a little girl and makes great research. Married women also return to peace. It's called daughter's day. "
End etiquette
Along the ancient customs in southern Hunan, on the fifth day of May when the summer day comes, hang Wormwood Leaves on the door and take a bath with wormwood leaves to drive away mosquitoes. People believe that after baptism, they can drive away malaria and safely spend this mosquito season in summer.
Acorus calamus Festival
The ancients believed that the "Double Ninth Festival" was a taboo day. At this time, the five poisons were exhausted. Therefore, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival was to expel evil spirits and avoid poisons, such as hanging Acorus calamus and Wormwood Leaves on the door. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Acorus calamus Festival".
Why is dragon boat festival called daughter's day
The first statement
It is said that on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival in the sixth year of Wude of the Tang Dynasty (AD 624), an official ship was paddling here at a 'river pool' on the Jialing River outside the important town of Lizhou (now Guangyuan, Sichuan). The ship's orchestras are melodious and singing and dancing are light. Suddenly, there were dark clouds in the sky and waves on the river. There was a flash of lightning and a golden dragon suddenly released from the center of the river. After a wild dance in the sky, the Golden Dragon rushed to the official ship and immediately stunned Yang, the governor's wife of Lizhou sitting on the ship. When the beautiful governor's wife woke up, the wind had stopped, the waves were quiet, the dark clouds all over the sky had disappeared, and only the bright sunshine was warm on the clear river. The oars were gentle and sunny. Everything was so quiet and serene, as if nothing had happened just now. Soon after the governor's wife returned, she became pregnant and later gave birth to a baby girl. Later, the baby girl grew up and became the only female emperor in China's long history after a period of hardships. She was Wu Zetian, an outstanding female politician in China's feudal society and the "Golden Wheel holy God Emperor" of the great Zhou Dynasty who ruled the world on behalf of the Tang Dynasty. In order to commemorate the outstanding woman born here in Lizhou in the Tang Dynasty, the local people built a sacrificial Temple 'huangze Temple' on the Wulong mountain next to the "Lizhou jiangtan" where Yang's sense of dragon gave birth to Wu Meiniang. The rippling jiangtan is also known as the "Golden Wheel feeling pregnancy place". Every year, a grand celebration and commemoration will be held on Wu Zetian's birthday. Women in the whole city will come out of the city in gorgeous clothes and gather on both sides of the Jialing River. They moved boats to jiangtan, sang and danced, asked for the reappearance of the golden dragon, felt the pregnancy of the dragon, and gave birth to several more heroines who were proud of women all over the world. This custom is followed today, which is the colorful and fascinating 'Guangyuan daughter's Day'.
The second statement
Ming Shen Bang's miscellaneous notes of the Wan Department: "on the May daughter's day, it is the Dragon Boat Festival rope, wearing Wormwood Leaves and five poison talismans. Wan vulgar, from the first day to the fifth day of May, plays the role of a little girl and makes great research. Married women also return to peace. It's called daughter's day. " In China, the Spring Festival is the most solemn festival, and new year's greetings are the main and important activities. New Year's greetings can arrive on February 2 of the lunar calendar at the latest, but new year's greetings are men's business, and women don't go out. After new year's greetings, women have no atmosphere to walk around. In addition, the busy farming season has begun, and there is no time to walk. What should we do? So the ancients chose the Dragon Boat Festival. There are many advantages for women to choose to return to the door during the Dragon Boat Festival, but one thing the ancients valued most is that the double five is the image of "Bihe" in the eight trigrams, which is auspicious and conducive to travel. Therefore, married women have returned to their mother's home to save their parents, hence the name of daughter's day.
The third statement
In fact, there is another explanation for the dragon boat festival called daughter's day, which many people don't know. The ancients believed that only in the beginning of Tai Chi, Tao stood in one, created heaven and earth and turned into all things. Tai Chi generates Yin and Yang, which are yin and Yang. Yin and yang are relative, just as men and women are relative. Therefore, the ancients used bipolar thinking in the design of many problems, and the same is true in the design of festivals. Therefore, there are both men's and women's festivals in a year. Therefore, there are three daughter's festivals in China, namely the Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival and Double Ninth Festival. On the fifth day of May, the seventh day of July and the ninth day of September, the number of Yang is heavy, From the anode to Yin, it was used as the daughter's day in ancient times. Tanabata should be the first, which belongs to little girl's day; Double Ninth Festival, followed by married women; The last is the Dragon Boat Festival, which belongs to the old girl and all married women.