Less than half a month is the Dragon Boat Festival, so what are the taboos of the festival? According to the notice of the general office of the State Council, the arrangement for the holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019 is as follows: on June 7 (Friday), take a compensatory leave, and on June 8 and 9, a total of three days.
Is Dragon Boat Festival a legal holiday in China?
1. The Dragon Boat Festival is a legal holiday. The legal holiday of the Dragon Boat Festival is one day.
2. The purpose of the Dragon Boat Festival holiday is to let people have a rest in body and mind at the same time, better inherit and carry forward the traditional Chinese festival.
3. The Dragon Boat Festival has always been a traditional festival that China attaches great importance to. Eating zongzi, dragon boat racing and commemorating Qu Yuan have become the first things that people can think of during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. With people's increasing attention to the traditional festival, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a major event in people's life. The Dragon Boat Festival has a day off, and then the big week is adjusted to form a three-day continuous rest.
4. Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular festival among the Chinese people. The Dragon Boat Festival is a national legal holiday since 2008. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20, 2006, the folk custom was approved by the State Council as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
Can I borrow money for the Dragon Boat Festival
The date of the Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of May every year. According to the taboo of the Yellow calendar, there is no taboo information. Therefore, if someone is willing to lend you money, you can borrow it. But it's better not to borrow money on festivals, because some people think that borrowing money on festivals will affect their luck, and sometimes borrowing money is just taking friendship as a gamble, so we should be cautious about money coming and going.
What are the taboos of the Dragon Boat Festival
Avoid bad days
In Fengshui custom, may is called 'bad month', which is an unlucky month. The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May is also called 'heavy five', which is the most unlucky day in May. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of "hiding from the noon". Children who are not over one year old must be sent to their grandmother's home to drive away evil and avoid disaster.
Avoid five poisons
Five poisons are snakes, scorpions, lizards, toads and centipedes. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, pictures of the five poisons and paper-cut should be pasted in the house, and needles should be stuck on them, which means that the five poisons have been killed and can no longer commit crimes. Some places will embroider the five poisons on their clothes, and others will wear the five poisons on their wrists. Avoid five poisons is mainly to remind people to pay attention to the prevention of pests and diseases.
Avoid swimming
There are some places in the Dragon Boat Festival is to avoid swimming, especially those who have drowned. Some local customs think that on the Dragon Boat Festival, many drowning ghosts will go back to the sun to find a substitute, so they should throw zongzi into the water to share with them, so that they don't find themselves.
Don't lose children's sachets
In some places, on the day of Dragon Boat Festival, children will wear sachets to ward off evil spirits. After the Dragon Boat Festival, children's sachets must be burned, which means to clear the bad luck. If you lose your sachet. Kids can go on and on all year.
I'm afraid to eat my mother's rice dumplings
The married girl can't spend the Dragon Boat Festival in her mother's home, and can't eat the zongzi made by her mother's home. If she eats it, she will have bad luck. As the saying goes' after eating my mother's dragon boat festival dumplings, there is no family left '.