Besides eating zongzi, what other customs are there in the Dragon Boat Festival?
2. It is said that hanging Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, smoked Rhizoma Atractylodis and Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, drinking realgar wine is to suppress evil spirits; The legend of eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is one of the four traditional festivals in China. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, midsummer is because the sun is on the mountain in midsummer, and May is midsummer. Its first afternoon is a sunny day, so the fifth day of May is also called "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called Zhengyang Festival? The Year of the Loong, noon, May Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Yulan Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and so on.
The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. Originally, it was a totem festival held by tribes who worshipped dragon totem in ancient Baiyue area. Before the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a custom of offering sacrifices to the dragon ancestors in the form of dragon boat races in Baiyue area.
Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River with a boulder in his arms at noon, and later took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some places, there are sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui. ?
Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in Baiyue in the south, and the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is regarded as a "bad month and bad day" from the north, which injected the seasonal fashion of "getting rid of diseases and preventing epidemic" in summer, and attached the commemorative contents of historical figures such as Qu Yuan's suicide by jumping into the river, and finally formed the Dragon Boat Festival culture.
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Several names of the Dragon Boat Festival are called:
1, Dragon Boat Festival
The word "Duan" means "the beginning", so "Duan Wu" means "the fifth day". According to the calendar of tree trunks and branches, May is the "noon" month, so the "Dragon Boat Festival" gradually evolved into the "Dragon Boat Festival". The Chronicle of Yanjing Years Old records: "The fifth day is the fifth day of May, and the transliteration of the word' Duan' is also stamped."
2. Duanyang Festival
According to the records of Jingchu over the years, it is midsummer and May is midsummer, and the first afternoon is a good day to climb mountains in the sun, so it is called "Duanyang Festival". ?
3. Mid-Autumn Festival
"noon" belongs to the twelve branches. The fifth month of the lunar calendar is noon, noon is the sun, and heavy noon is the day of the sun. Five, the afternoon is homophonic, and five and five are important, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "the heavy noon festival" or "the heavy five festivals", and some places are called "the fifth day of May" or "the May Festival". ?
4. Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon boat race was originally a ritual activity of ancient Yue people offering sacrifices to water gods or dragon gods, and its origin may have begun in the Neolithic Age. Because South Vietnamese people widely use boats and boats, animals such as dragons and ducks are often painted at the fore and aft of the boat as their totems or protectors. ? Dragon boat race is an important activity of Dragon Boat Festival, which is very popular in southern China, especially in Guangdong, where it is called dragon boat.
5. During the flood season.
In some rural areas of Shanghai, near the north bank of Hangzhou Bay, such as Fengxian and Nanhui, it is customary to call the Dragon Boat Festival "five o'clock in the flood season".
6. Noon Festival
This name comes from the number of yin and yang strokes. Tian Rucheng's Travel Notes on the West Lake, a volume of Yue in the 20th Ming Dynasty, said: "The Dragon Boat Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival because the sun reaches its highest point from noon to mid-autumn." Japan designated May 5th as "Boys' Day", which may also be based on the Japan-China Festival, because Japan believes that only men inherit the universal spirit. ?
7. Bathing Orchid Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and it is a season with frequent skin diseases. The ancients used bluegrass soup to bathe and decontaminate. The Great Dai Li in the Han Dynasty said, "Wash blue soup in the afternoon". ?
8. Jezon Festival
When the ancients ate zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a game that was shorter than each person's leaves, and the elderly won, so it was also called "Xiezong Festival". ?
9. Daughter's Day
"Miscellaneous Notes of Wan Series" is in Bangbang: "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival, Dai Ai Ye, and the five poison spells. Ten thousand customs are decorated with little girls from the first day of May to the fifth day of May, and we do our best. Married women also go back to their hometown because it is called Daughter's Day. " ?
10, Dira Festival
The Taoist "Korean pine Li Zizhang" divides a year into five waxes, the first day of the first lunar month and the fifth day of May. According to "Seven Stories on the Cloud", on the fifth day of May, the five emperors must visit the southern abdomen; Find out the good and evil done by the ancestors of strangers and the descendants of the world in order to convict and bless. Taoism believes that these twelfth lunar months in a year are auspicious days, suitable for offering sacrifices to ancestors and gods for blessing.
1 1, calamus festival
Dragon Boat Festival is not only an ancient totem sacrifice, but also a custom of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics". In the Han dynasty, northerners thought that "heavy noon" was a bad day for taboo, and at this time, the five poisons had been exhausted, so the custom of Dragon Boat Festival was to avoid evil spirits and poisons, such as hanging calamus and mugwort leaves on the door. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Acorus calamus Festival". ?
12, the Year of the Loong
Dragon is the totem belief of ancient Yue people in southern China, and the fifth day of May is the day of totem sacrifice. Dragon boat festival is called dragon boat when it rains. Dragon boat and dragon boat dumplings are all related to dragons. Therefore, it is also called the Dragon Boat Festival. ?
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Boat Festival