Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which is one of the four major festivals of the year. According to statistics, the name of Dragon Boat Festival is more than 20, such as Duanwu Festival, Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Xia Festival, May Festival, Acorus Festival, Pu Festival, Longzhou Festival, Yulan Festival, Quyuan day, Wuri Festival, daughter's day, Dila Festival, poet's day, longri, Wuri, Lantern Festival, Wudan Festival, etc. Now, I'd like to share some common and interesting nicknames with you today, through which you can learn more about Dragon Boat Festival and Chinese traditional culture!
The Dragon Boat Festival
The word "Duan" has the meaning of "initial", so "Duan five" is "first five". According to the calendar, may is exactly the "noon" month, so the "end five" has gradually evolved into the "Dragon Boat Festival". According to the records of Yanjing at the age of, 'the fifth day of the first year is the fifth day of May, which means the sound change of Gai Duan. '
Dragon Boat Festival
According to the records of the age of Jingchu, the first noon day of May is the day when the weather is good. Therefore, the fifth day of May is called "Dragon Boat Festival".
Heavy noon
The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as "Double Ninth Festival" or "Double Fifth Festival". In some places, it is also called "May Festival".
Mid heaven Festival
The name comes from the number of yin and Yang skills. "The Dragon Boat Festival is called" Tianzhong Festival ", because the sun reaches the highest point in the middle of the sky at noon, especially at noon, so it is called" Tianzhong Festival ". Japan takes May 5 as the "men's Day", which may also be based on the Tianzhong Festival, because it believes that only men inherit the spirit of heaven and earth.
Bath Orchid Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is midsummer. It is a season of skin diseases. The ancients used to wash and decontaminate orchid soup. The Han Dynasty "Dadai Li" said: 'bathe in blue soup at noon'.
Jie Zong Festival
When the ancients ate zongzi at Dragon Boat Festival, there was a game to compare the length of each person's zongzi leaves. The elder was the winner, so it was also called "zongzi Festival".
Daughter's Day
"Wanshu miscellany" published by Shen bang of the Ming Dynasty: "may daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival rope, wearing AI ye and five poison talismans. Wan custom, from the first to the fifth day of the fifth day of the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month. Married women also return home. Call it daughter's day. '
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According to the ancient customs in southern Hunan, on the fifth day of May when summer comes, hang the wormwood leaf on the door, and take a bath with the wormwood leaf to repel mosquitoes. It is believed that after baptism, malaria can be driven away and the mosquito season can be safely spent in this summer.
Acorus calamus
The ancients believed that "heavy noon" was a day of taboo. At this time, the five poisons were exhausted. Therefore, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival was mostly to expel evils and avoid poisons, such as hanging calamus and mugwort leaves on the door. Therefore, Dragon Boat Festival is also called "calamus Festival".
May is the beginning of the whole hot day. At this time, the Yang Qi reaches its peak and the fire is extremely strong. The heat in the sky falls on the ground, and the moisture on the ground steams into the air. The combination of the heat and the humidity is the most likely to breed germs, brew various evils, and make people sick. Dragon Boat Festival is the first of the nine poison days. The ancient people set up the Dragon Boat Festival to remind people to keep healthy and prevent diseases. Therefore, there are many rituals such as drinking realgar wine, inserting wormwood, wearing sachets and so on, all of which contain the inheritance of ancient wisdom and experience. 1 eat zongzi.
Zongzi is also a kind of medicinal meal. Glutinous rice has the functions of Invigorating Qi and spleen, appetizing and eliminating food. The leaves used to wrap zongzi are more exquisite. Reed leaves are mostly used in the north, and bamboo leaves and lotus leaves are mostly used in the south. These leaves have good medicinal functions. For example, reed leaves can clear away heat, promote fluid production, eliminate boredom and thirst; bamboo leaves can clear away heat, eliminate boredom, diuresis and detoxification; lotus leaves can clear away heat and dampness, and calm the stomach. In general, zongzi has the effect of clearing away heat and heat, benefiting qi and promoting body fluid, nourishing blood and calming nerves.
At the same time, it should also be emphasized that zongzi is fragrant, waxy and smooth, with high viscosity, not easy to digest, and it is easy to cause indigestion if you eat too much. People with bad spleen and stomach should pay special attention to controlling food intake. 2 hanging Acorus calamus
After the Dragon Boat Festival, the evil spirit is mainly hot and dirty, so we should make it fragrant and turbid. The custom of Dragon Boat Festival is always inseparable from fragrance.
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 in the door eyebrows and hung in the hall. AI, also known as AI, AI Hao. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oil. Its peculiar fragrance can drive away mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants, and purify the air. Traditional Chinese medicine uses AI as its medicine, which has the functions of regulating qi and blood, warming uterus and removing cold and dampness. The processing of wormwood leaves into 'wormwood' is an important medicinal material for moxibustion. Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb. Its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil. It is a drug for refreshing and opening the body, strengthening the bones and eliminating stagnation, killing insects and sterilization. It can be seen that the ancients inserted mugwort and Acorus calamus have certain disease prevention effect. 3 wearing Sachet
Dragon Boat Festival wearing sachet, not only has the meaning of avoiding evil and expelling plague, but also has the wind of embellishment. There are cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine in the sachet. It is wrapped with silk cloth, which is fragrant. Then, it is made of five colored silk strings, which are made into different shapes, forming a string. It is colorful, exquisite and eye-catching. Wearing sachet, gathering fragrance and concentrating spirit, avoiding evil and expelling plague, and dotted with lapel.
There are cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine in the sachet, which are wrapped with silk cloth and tied with five colored silk threads. The Chinese herbal medicine used in the sachet can emit natural fragrance, which belongs to the five odor category in the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, and has the effects of opening up the mind, refreshing the spleen, eliminating the filth and pleasing the spirit. Modern medical research has also proved that the reason why these drugs have fragrant smell is that they contain a large number of volatile substances, which have antibacterial and antiviral effects. The traditional Chinese herbal medicine in the Dragon Boat Festival sachet can also prevent cold, hand, foot and mouth disease, and has a good effect on mosquito control and insect repellent. 4 Dragon Boat Festival taboo
Through internal observation, the ancients found that in the May of the lunar calendar, when heaven and earth make peace and Yin and Yang contend for the division of life and death, it is the poison moon, among which nine days are the days that hurt the body, damage the Qi and consume the essence, which were called the nine poison days by the ancients, and the Dragon Boat Festival is the first of the nine poison days. The nine poison days are the most difficult to do, and the most important thing is not to have a house
（1） On the day of Yang blade, poison gas attacks the body.
This is the fifth day of May. From the perspective of lunar weather, it's the summer solstice, so it's also the most sunny day of the year. It's actually the sheep blade day. In this lunar may, the sun blade is fierce, originally known as the "poison moon", and there are nine poison days in total. Dragon Boat Festival is the first of the nine poisons, so it's called the "poison day". From the perspective of the five elements, if any of the five elements is too strong or too weak, it will form evil spirits, which will pose a threat and harm to the natural climate or human health. Moreover, this season is also the time when poisonous insects and insects are rampant. Therefore, it is necessary to plant AI, peach and Changpu on the door of the house to drive away ghosts; Fumigating Atractylodes, angelica, drinking realgar wine, or sprinkling realgar wine on children, so as to expel insects and avoid evil, and protect health.
（2） On the day of sacrifice, Yin Qi hurt the body.
One of the most important and common contents of Dragon Boat Festival is to offer sacrifices to ancestors. Not only to Qu Yuan, a poet who committed suicide in the river, but also to Wu Zi's son-in-law, Cao E, a loyal minister, and so on. On this day, many zongzi will be wrapped, and then they will be put into the river, just like the dead people's graves, while the rest will be enjoyed by themselves, so zongzi is actually a kind of sacrificial offering. It's hard to avoid sadness when sacrificing, so this day, like the Qingming Festival, creates strong Yin Qi, which, like Yang Qi, will also hurt people with weak psychology and body, such as depression, poor mood, physical pain, etc. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is not suitable for all kinds of things, more unsuitable for taking office, moving, starting, opening, marriage, celebration and other festive activities, nor suitable for participating in recreational activities, and the right choice is to return to parents and reunite with their families.
To summarize the above taboos, we can simply summarize them into three items:
1. Dragon Boat Festival poison gas hurt people, need to insert AI Tao, hang Changpu, drink saxiong yellow wine, etc., to drive away poison and evil.
2. Dragon Boat Festival offers sacrifices to mourning, which requires outings or family reunions to regulate physical and mental health.