Symbolic significance of exorcism ornaments in Dragon Boat Festival
The significance of dragon boat festival to ward off evil spirits
1, wear sachets to ward off evil spirits and spread love.
Wearing sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival is traditionally considered to have the effect of exorcising evil spirits and plagues. In fact, cinnabar, wormwood leaves, realgar, fragrant medicine and pomegranate flowers are put in the sachet, which gives off a pleasant fragrance and is the nemesis of mosquitoes, so it has the function of exorcising evil spirits and plagues. The sachets are wrapped in silk and then tied with five-color silk threads to make various shapes and styles. Beautiful women can also send sachets of various scents to their loved ones to express their love.
2. Wear colored rope bracelets and pray for love and prosperity.
Five-color lines are the most commonly used auspicious things. The five-color silk thread, namely, green, red, white, black and yellow, respectively represents the five elements of gold, water, wood, fire and earth and the five directions of east, west, south, north and middle. The five-color rope bracelet has the effect of five-color acacia. Men and women who want to bid farewell to singles as soon as possible can wear five-color rope bracelets on their wrists or ankles, boys wear left hands or left feet, and girls wear right hands or right feet, which can increase popularity, inspire people and help attract good marriages. It will have a better effect if you wear it in the moonlight on the 15th, 16th and 17th.
3, travel together, get sick and adjust your mentality.
In the old days, on Duanyang Festival, men, women and children put on new clothes, went to Shan Ye for a day, and then bathed in fragrant herbs or leaves such as fried cattail and wormwood at night to drive away evil spirits. It's called. Travel is full of diseases? 、? Wash all diseases? Doing so can ward off evil spirits and be safe and healthy for a year. In modern times, the pressure of study and work often makes the brain nervous. During the Dragon Boat Festival, you can choose appropriate travel and relaxation, just to give full play. Playing in the suburbs and tasting some special foods can not only help you get rid of your illness, but also make you feel comfortable, reduce your negative energy and naturally bring good luck.
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a good way to increase the gas field.
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has many good meanings: zongzi, bronze bell, Neutron? , that is, hit the nail on the head, a man, get the meaning of your son, is there? High school? So, have a good zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival and let Good Luck Road accompany you.
Dragon Boat Festival releases sacrifices to morality and prays for well-being.
If there are patients at home, they can be released during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is more effective than usual.
6. Wearing a gourd on the Dragon Boat Festival turns it into good luck for Jinafu.
Gourd, Yu? Fulu? Meaning, it has the feng shui function of receiving blessings. The shape of the gourd seems to be Tai Chi Yin and Yang, which can control the three realms. Therefore, in geomantic omen, it also has the function of eliminating evil spirits. During the Dragon Boat Festival, put a small gourd mascot on your body to bring you good luck.
7. Dragon Boat Festival is a good opportunity to ward off evil spirits.
Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional day to ward off evil spirits. Thousands of years later, you have a strong idea. Therefore, if you have bad luck and poor health recently, you can take the Dragon Boat Festival as an opportunity to hang a mahogany mascot on the door to ward off evil spirits, get rid of the bad luck in the past and usher in good luck.
8. It's a good sign to insert Ai in Dragon Boat Festival.
In folklore,? Qingming inserted willow, Dragon Boat Festival inserted ai? . Wormwood and calamus are inserted in the door, and made into the shape of an adult or a tiger, which is called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. They can repel malaria and drive away evil spirits. There is also the custom of eating five poison cakes, which symbolizes the good omen of preventing villains, health and good luck.
What do children wear to ward off evil spirits during Dragon Boat Festival?
1, dressed in colorful
In ancient China, five colors were worshipped, which were auspicious colors. Yingshao's "Customs Pass" records:? On May 5th, the sun tied his arm with colored silk, and named it Long Life, One Life Continues, One Life Defeated, One Color, One Rope Defeated, Ghost Defeated, so that people would not get sick? .
Binding is to avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions, and wrap colorful silk threads around children's wrists, ankles and necks. Yantai's names are all similar, but the dialect pronunciation is slightly different, such as? Rusu? 、? Cut the exposed beam? Tielong's life is continuous, and his tie is colorful. It is said that children are forbidden to talk when tying the thread, and the five-color thread should not be broken and discarded at will. It can only be thrown into the river during the first heavy rain or the first bath in summer, which means that the river will wash away plagues and diseases.
2. put it on? Ai Hu?
According to the records in the local chronicles of the Jin Dynasty, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people tied wormwood with insect-proof function into a human shape, or braided it into a tiger shape, or cut it out with colored cloth, and then glued it with wormwood leaves. What is the name of the weaving or cutting object? Ai Hu? .
Do women celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival? Ai Hu? It's not in the hair. Will men? Ai Hu? Or? Pu Jian? People think that wearing it on the chest or hanging it around the waist can prevent the invasion of evil spirits and ensure good health.
Step 3 wear a tiger hat
In Haining, during the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to dragon boat races, dumplings and other activities, grandma and uncle also have an important task, that is, to prepare a tiger hat and tiger skin clothes for their newborn nephew, which grandma will send to her daughter's house before the Dragon Boat Festival. On the Dragon Boat Festival, every family puts on tiger hats and clothes for their children.
People are weak in the face of natural forces and natural phenomena, and they don't understand diseases. They think the monster is at work. To ward off evil spirits, they use tiger hats and tiger clothes? Tiger? To resist the invisible devil. "Custom and meaning? The ceremony said:? Tigers are penises and all animals are the same length. They can fight wits and eat ghosts. ? In the traditional concept, the tiger is considered as an auspicious animal, which can suppress and exorcise evil spirits, so it is popular among the people to wear a tiger hat and tiger clothes in May to ward off evil spirits.
Step 4 wear a five-poison bag
Wudoudou refers to a Chinese-style chest covering embroidered with five poisonous insect patterns, such as snakes, scorpions, centipedes, geckos and toads. Most of them are hand-embroidered with pure red cotton cloth and colored embroidery thread, which means that five peas are harmless, healthy and safe.
Do children have to eat Dragon Boat Festival? Five poison bags? It is embroidered with a picture of five poisons, which means fighting poison with poison to protect health. Mom or grandma will put a warm egg in her pocket, or roll around the baby's stomach and talk while doing it? A year without stomachache? A kind of writing.
5, with gourd
It is a traditional custom to carry gourds on the Dragon Boat Festival. Children and adults wear gourds, which not only means to ward off evil spirits, but also has the style of ornament. Wear traditional cultural meanings? Fulu? Hulu can turn hostilities into jade and enhance the auspicious atmosphere.
A gourd branch? Men? Homophonic with Wan, there are many gourd seeds in every mature gourd, which the Han people associate with? Future generations, lush and auspicious? ; Gourd homophonic? Hulu Fulu? In addition, it has various forms and beautiful shapes, and it can give people a happy and peaceful aesthetic feeling without manual carving. The ancients thought it could drive away disasters and evil spirits, pray for happiness and make future generations prosperous.
Step 6 wear a sachet
The most distinctive ornament of Dragon Boat Festival is sachet. Children wear sachets, which are said to ward off evil spirits and avoid disasters. Sacks made of medicinal plants with various scents can also prevent diseases. Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which not only means to ward off evil spirits, but also has the style of decorating with their heads. Cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine are hidden in sachets, wrapped in silk cloth, and the fragrance is overflowing, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk threads to make strings of different shapes and exquisite and dazzling.
Dragon boat festival custom
Dragon boat race:
Dragon boat race is the main custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, people who originated in the ancient State of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of the sage Qu Yuan, and many people rowed boats to save people. They rushed to catch up with each other and disappeared at Dongting Lake. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of competition prevailed in wuyue and Chu.
Actually? Dragon boat race? As early as the Warring States Period. Carving dragon-shaped canoes in drums and playing race games are semi-religious and semi-entertaining programs to entertain gods and people in the ceremony.
Later, people everywhere not only commemorated Qu Yuan, but also gave different meanings to dragon boat racing.
Dragon boat rowing in Jiangsu and Zhejiang is of great significance to commemorate Qiu Jin, a native-born modern female democratic revolutionary. The night dragon boat is decorated with lights and shuttles, and the scene is moving and interesting. The Miao nationality in Guizhou is held from May 25th to 28th of the lunar calendar? Dragon Boat Festival? Celebrate the success of transplanting rice seedlings and wish a bumper harvest. Yunnan Dai compatriots competed in dragon boat races at the Water-splashing Festival to commemorate the ancient hero Yan Hongwo. Different nationalities and regions have different legends about dragon boat rowing. To this day, dragon boat races with different characteristics are held every year in many areas near rivers and lakes in the south.
In the 29th year of Qing Qianlong (1736), Taiwan Province Province began to hold dragon boat races. At that time, Jiang, the chief executive of Taiwan Province Province, held a friendly match in Fukeji Half Moon Pool in Tainan City. Now, Taiwan Province Province holds a dragon boat race on May 5th every year. In Hong Kong, races are also held.
In addition, dragon boat racing was first introduced to neighboring countries such as Japan, Vietnam and Britain. 1980, the dragon boat race was included in the national sports competition in China and held every year? Qu Yuan Cup? Dragon boat race. 1991June 16 (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), the first international dragon boat festival was held in Yueyang, China, Qu Yuan's second hometown. Hold the ceremony before the game, keep the traditional ceremony and inject new modern factors. Dragon head sacrifice? . ? Leading? Was carried into the Quzi Temple, and the athletes were handed over to the leaders? Shang Hong? After (tying the red ribbon), the priest read the eulogy and took it as the leader? Turn on the light? (that is, it will be sunny). Then, all the people who took part in the Dragon Boat Festival bowed three times, carried the dragon head to the Guluo River and hurried to the dragon boat race. More than 600,000 people participated in competitions, expositions and evening activities, which is unprecedented. Since then, Hunan has regularly held the International Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boat races will be widely spread all over the world.
Eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival.
Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi, also called? Horn millet? 、? Jiaozi? . It has a long history and various patterns.
According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, millet was wrapped into a trumpet shape by the leaves of zinia latifolia, which was called? Horn millet? ; Put rice in a bamboo tube, seal and bake, and weigh? Jiaozi? . At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, millet soaked in plant ash water. Because the water contains alkali, the millet is wrapped in leaves into a quadrilateral, and when cooked, it becomes Guangdong sour rice dumplings.
In Jin Dynasty, Zongzi was officially designated as Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, in addition to glutinous rice, jiaozi also added the traditional Chinese medicine Alpinia oxyphylla. The boiled jiaozi is called. Intelligent jiaozi? . At that time, the "Yueyang Local Records" at the beginning of the Zhou Dynasty recorded: The habit is to wrap the millet in leaves, cook it and cook it thoroughly. From May 5th to summer solstice, it is jiaozi and Xiaomi. ? During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, miscellaneous zongzi appeared. Rice is mixed with animal meat, chestnuts, red dates, red beans and so on. And there are more and more varieties. Zongzi is also used as a gift for communication.
In the Tang dynasty, the rice used for zongzi was already? White jade? Its shape is conical and rhombic. Is it recorded in Japanese literature? Datang zongzi? . In the song dynasty, there were? Candied jiaozi? Put the fruit in the jiaozi. The poet Su Dongpo has? See Yangmei in Zongzi? This poem. At this time, there were also advertisements for building pavilions and wooden chariots and horses with zongzi, indicating that eating zongzi was very fashionable in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, the wrapping material of zongzi changed from leaves to leaves. Later, zongzi wrapped in reed leaves appeared, and additional materials such as bean paste, pork, pine nuts, dates and walnuts appeared, and the varieties were more colorful.
To this day, at the beginning of May every year, people in China have to soak glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves and wrap zongzi, with more varieties of colors. From the perspective of stuffing, there are many dates in the north, such as jiaozi; There are many kinds of fillings in the south, such as red bean paste, fresh meat, ham and egg yolk, among which Zhejiang Jiaxing Zongzi is the representative. The custom of eating zongzi has been popular in China for thousands of years and spread to South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.
Pei Xiang Bao:
Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to mean to ward off evil spirits and plague. Actually, it is used to decorate the inner head. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, and the fragrance is overflowing, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk thread to make a string of different shapes, all kinds of exquisite and lovely.
Acorus calamus:
The folk proverb says:? Qingming inserted willow, Dragon Boat Festival inserted ai? . On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, puts calamus and moxa sticks between their eyebrows and hangs them in the class. Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Liu Hua, Garlic and Dragon Boat Flower are made into human or tiger shapes, which are called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. It is made into garlands and decorations, beautiful and fragrant, and women compete to wear it to ward off evil spirits.
Artemisia argyi, also known as Artemisia argyi and Artemisia argyi. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. Its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants and purify the air. Chinese medicine uses wormwood as medicine, which has the functions of nourishing qi and blood, warming uterus and dispelling cold and dampness. Processing mugwort leaves into? Ai Rong? It is an important medicinal material for moxibustion treatment.
Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, and its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, which is a good medicine for refreshing, strengthening bones, eliminating stagnation, killing insects and sterilizing.
It can be seen that the ancients inserted wormwood leaves and calamus to have a certain disease prevention effect. Dragon Boat Festival was also handed down from ancient times? Health festival? On this day, people sweep the courtyard, hang branches of Artemisia argyi, hang calamus and sprinkle realgar wine, which can shake the turbidity, remove rot, sterilize and prevent diseases. These activities also reflect the fine traditions of the Chinese nation. It is a common custom for all countries and ethnic groups in China to collect herbs on the Dragon Boat Festival.
People who saw the symbolic meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil spirits can still see it now.
1. Children's songs about Dragon Boat Festival
2. Complete poems about Dragon Boat Festival
3. Lyric prose of Dragon Boat Festival
4. Ancient Dragon Boat Festival poems
5. Complete poems about Dragon Boat Festival