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Dragon Boat Festival Festival Introduction:

Dragon Boat Festival for the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as the end of the festival, afternoon festival, May Festival;
Dragon Boat Festival is the traditional Chinese people to commemorate the traditional festivals Qu Yuan, more eat dumplings, race dragon boat, hanging calamus, humilis, leaves, aroma of herb, Angelica, drink the practice of male wine.
"Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national statutory holidays, and included in the world of intangible cultural heritage list.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival:

This is the earliest from the Southern Dynasties Liang Dai Wu are "continued Qi mind" and the Northern Zhou Zong "Jing Chu years when the record" records. It is said that Qu Yuan in the fifth day of the vote since the Miluo River, after the death of the trapped by the dragon, the world sorrow, every day on the five-color silk dumplings in the water to drive the dragon.

Biography, Qu Yuan cast Miluo River, the local people heard the news immediately rowing fishing, has been to the Dongting Lake, and finally see Qu Yuan's body. At that time, coincides with the rainy day, the lake together on the shore together with the pavilion next to the pavilion. When people know that is salvation Xianchen Qu Dafu, the rain again, competing to draw into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to sustenance grief, people swing on the river above, then gradually developed into a dragon boat race.

To commemorate the Eastern Han Dynasty filial piety Cao E to save the father died. Cao E is the Eastern Han Shangyu, his father drowned in the river, a few days no body, when filial piety Cao E years only fourteen years old, day and night along the river cry. After seven days, on May 5 also cast a river, five days after holding the father dead. This pass for the myth, and then passed on to the county governor, so that the order is still for the monument, so that his disciples Handan Chunzhu poetry praise. Filial piety Cao E's tomb, in this Zhejiang Shaoxing, after the Cao e monument for Jin Wang Yi book. Descendants in order to commemorate Cao e filial piety, Cao E in the river to build Cao e temple, she lived in the village was renamed Cao E town, Cao Ai killed the father named Cao Ejiang.

Ying Tao God, the Spring and Autumn Wu Guozhong Chen Zixu with injustice after death, into the Tao God, the world sorrow and sacrifice, it is the Dragon Boat Festival. This legend, spread in Jiangsu and Zhejiang area is very wide. Wu Zixu members, Chu people, father and brother are killed by the king of Chu, and later Zixu went to the country, to help Wu Chu Chu, five war into the city of Chu are Ying. At that time Chu Ping Wang has died, Zixu digging the tomb of the corpse of three hundred, to kill the father and son revenge. Wu Wang Houlu after death, his son succession, Wu Jun morale, victorious, more country defeated, Yue Wang Goujiao and, the difference between the poor. Zixu suggested that the country should be completely eliminated, the husband do not listen, Wu Guotai slaughtered by the Vietnamese bribery, slander framed child Xu, Fu bad letter, thanks to children Xu sword, Zixu died. Zixu this for the Zhongliang, as death, before the death of the neighbors said: "I die, my eyes dug up hanging in the east gate of Wu Jing, to see the Vietnamese army into the city off Wu", they commit suicide, Heard the fury, so that the body of the child Xu Xu in the leather on May 5 into the river, so Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival is also commemorating the day of Wu Zixu.

This argument comes from Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival test" and "Dragon Boat Festival history education." He believes that the fifth day of May is the ancient Wuyue region "dragon" tribe held totem worship day.

The main reason is:
(A) Dragon Boat Festival two most important activities to eat dumplings and races, are related to the dragon. Dumplings into the water often dug by the mosquito, while the race is used in the dragon boat.
(B) races and the relationship between the ancient Wu Yue particularly deep Moreover, Wu Yue people also broke the tattoo "like a dragon" custom.
(C) the ancient May fifth day useful "colorful silk arm" folk customs, which should be "like the dragon" tattoo custom relics.

In the pre-Qin era, it was generally believed that May was a poisonous month and five days were evil days. "Lu's Spring and Autumn" in the "Midsummer" chapter provides that people in May to abstinence, fasting. "Xia Xiaoying" in mind: "Today, medicine, to Juan in addition to gas." "Big Day ceremony," in mind, "May 5, animal husbandry for the bath" to bath evil that five is the legend of the death of many. "Historical Records · Mengchang Jun Biography" recorded in the history of the famous Mengchang Jun, was born on May 5. His father to his mother do not give birth to him, that "Mayer, longer than the family Qi, will be detrimental to their parents." "Customs through" lost, "vulgar say May 5 children, male father, female mother." "The king of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the first five years of his grandfather, his grandfather gave him named as" the first day of the month, Town evil ". Song Huizong Zhao Ji May early five students, foster care in the ectopic. It can be seen that the ancient days of May were evil days. Visible from the pre-Qin, this day are not Kyrgyzstan day. In this way, in this day inserted calamus, leaves to exorcism, smoked herb, Angelica and drink male wine to avoid the epidemic, is a matter of course.

The main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival:

At that time Chu people were reluctant to wait for the son of Qu Yuan, so many people rowing to catch up with salvation. They scrambled to catch up with the Dongting Lake when no trace, is the origin of the dragon boat race, after each year on May 5 draw a dragon boat to commemorate the. By the dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river, so as not to eat fish Qu Yuan's body.

Race of the study, popular in Wu, the more Chu. Qing Emperor Qianlong twenty-nine years began to have a dragon boat race in Taiwan, when Taiwan's prefect Jiang Yuanjun in Tainan City Fahua Temple half moon pool hosted a friendly match.

Taiwan is now held every year on May 5 Dragon Boat Race. Hong Kong has a race, the recent British people have to follow the practice of the Chinese people, the organization ghost guy team, for the competition.

Eat dumplings:

Jing Chu of the people, in the May 5 boiled glutinous rice or steamed dumplings into the river, to sacrifice Qu Yuan, for the fear of fish to eat, so with bamboo drums filled with glutinous rice, and later gradually with dumplings leaves rice instead of bamboo.

To the Tang Dynasty, dumplings have become the necessary food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Tang Dynasty Yaohe "Zhuhuo fishing song ring, the wind and the angle of dumplings incense" verse, reflecting the prevalence of food dumplings at that time. Song Dynasty, there have been "Ai Ye dip rice wrapped" and "Ai Xiang dumplings". Yuan Dynasty dumplings wrapped material has changed from the leaves of bamboo leaves, broke the wild leaves of the seasonal limitations. Ming Dynasty appeared with reed leaves package of dumplings, additional material has emerged bean paste, pork, pine nuts, dates, walnuts, varieties more colorful. Today's popular "ham dumplings" is in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong years.

Aihu:

Ai Hu, the old Dragon Boat Festival exorcism, but also for the decorations. China's ancient tiger as a sacred animal, vulgar thought that the town can be evil spirits, bless peace. "Customs through" the cloud: "Tiger who Yang things, the beasts of the long." Can swallow ghosts, ... ... also offer evil. " So the people take more tiger for the use of evil spirits, especially the Dragon Boat Festival for the most distinctive. Aihu or Ai cut from the cut, or cut the ribbon for the tiger, sticky to Ai Ye, wearing the hair in the body. Dragon Boat Festival wear Ai Hu has been more than a thousand years of history. Song Chen Yuan regulation "when the age of mind" cited "years old miscellanies": "Dragon Boat Festival to Ai for the tiger, to the big as black beans, or cut for the tiger, sticky leaves to wear." Wang Yigong "Dragon Boat Festival" poem: Chuanzhu Aihu Fu Qun evil, Xiaojiao Xiangyun Qibao car '. "And Qing Fu Shantong Chong" Yanjing years when the mind ":" Every end of the sun, boudoir in the clever, made with tiles and tiger dumplings ... ... to color Line wear, hanging in the hairpin head, or tied to the back of the children, ancient poem: 'Yu Yan Chai head Aihu light', that is also intended.

Wearing a bag:

Dai Hong package quite pay attention. Elderly people in order to prevent disease and fitness, generally like wearing plum blossoms, chrysanthemums, peaches, apples, lotus, dolls riding fish, dolls cock, double lotus and other shapes, a symbol of flowers, all the best, husband and wife, family harmony. Children like birds and animals like, such as tigers, leopards; monkeys on yu, cockfighting and so on. Young people wearing a sunbag most stress, if it is love in the lover, that passionate girl very early to elaborate one or two chic sachets, rush to give their own lover before the festival. Young man wearing a sweetheart gave the sachet, naturally to cause the comments around the men and women, straight boast guy's eyes ingenuity.