What does the dragon boat festival do? As one of the traditional festivals in China, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is also a long time. What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival? What is the implication of the customs related to the Dragon Boat Festival?
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival
The fifth lunar month is also called Duanwu Festival, which is also called the Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival and Tianchang Festival. End means beginning and beginning. The fifth day of junior high school can be called Duanwu. The first month of the lunar calendar is Jianyin, and the second month is Mao. In turn, may is noon. Therefore, may is called noon moon, and the fifth day of May is called Dragon Boat Festival. From the historical records, the word "Dragon Boat Festival" was first seen in the local records of Zhou Chu in the Jin Dynasty: "Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer, cooking corns.". In the Tang Dynasty, because Emperor Xuanzong was born on August 5, song Jing changed Duanwu to Dragon Boat Festival in order to please the emperor
The reason why the Dragon Boat Festival with colorful lines
In ancient times, may was regarded as a bad month. Because of its hot and steaming weather, diseases were easy to spread. Since the Han Dynasty, around the fifth day of this month, colorful silk thread was tied on the arm, which was called to ensure safety and health, and to avoid the disaster of swordsmen. It is also called "twining five colored silk". The Dragon Boat Festival mascot and ornament of Han nationality. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, women use red, yellow, blue, white and black silk or wool to tie to children's arms and wrists (male left and female right), or hang on children's chest, mosquito net and cradle. It is said that the five color silk symbolizes the five color dragon, which can avoid the plague and make people healthy and long-lived. It has been recorded in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was originally woven with colored silk thread into the sun, moon, stars, birds and animals, which were presented to the venerable at home on the Dragon Boat Festival. In the Qing Dynasty, long life thread was wrapped around the wrist, which is still popular among the people. The Huaibei area of Anhui Province is called "Shuan Huaxian". '
Dragon Boat Festival customs related to wuduan
As mentioned above, the Dragon Boat Festival in the eyes of the ancients is a poisonous day, evil day, in Chinese folk beliefs, this idea has been handed down, so there are all kinds of peace, disaster relief customs. In fact, this is because the summer weather is hot and dry, people are easy to get sick and pestilence is also easy to spread; in addition, snakes and insects are easy to breed and bite people, so we should be very careful to form this habit. All kinds of festivals and customs, such as collecting herbs, sprinkling realgar wine on walls, doors and windows, drinking Pu wine, seem superstitious, but they are also health activities. The Dragon Boat Festival can be regarded as a traditional medical and Health Festival, a festival for people to fight against diseases and poisonous insects. Today, these health customs should be developed and carried forward.
Hang wormwood, Acorus calamus, banyan branch
There are other reasons for hanging wormwood, calamus, pomegranate and garlic at the gate of the Dragon Boat Festival. AI, Rong and calamus are usually tied into a bunch with red paper and then inserted or hung on the door. Because the five auspicious in the sky of Acorus calamus is the first symbol of the sword, but it is not auspicious. Because of the growing season and appearance, it is regarded as the feeling of "hundred Yin Qi". The leaves are sword shaped, and can be inserted at the door to avoid evil. So the alchemists called it 'water sword', and later the custom was extended to 'Pu sword', which can kill thousands of evils. Gu Tieqing of the Qing dynasty recorded in his qingjialu that "cutting Pu as a sword, cutting Peng as a whip, with peach stalks and garlic, hanging in bed, all with ghosts.". However, in the local records of the Jin Dynasty, there is a saying that "AI is the shape of a tiger, or the ribbon is the shape of a tiger, and AI leaf is pasted on it, and my wife competes to cut it. Later, it was even more like a calamus, or in the shape of a human being or a sword. It was called a "calamus sword" to drive away evil spirits and ghosts.