The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival, which means the same as Wu Chu's, just like the fifth day. The word "five" in the Dragon Boat Festival is also connected with "noon". According to the order of earthly branches, May is "noon" month. Because noon is the "sun", the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang". On May 5th, both the month and the day are five, so calling five is also called noon. In addition, there are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: Summer Festival, Magnolia Festival, Daughter's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Dila Festival, Poet's Day and so on. There are at least four or five theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: in memory of Qu Yuan; Wuyue's national totem sacrifice theory: From the three generations of summer solstice festival; Evil month and evil day drive away, and so on. So far, the most influential view on the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. In the field of folk culture, China people associate dragon boat racing and eating zongzi with Qu Yuan. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan jumped into the river, the local people injured him and died, so they sailed to save him because of the custom of racing. He also said that people often put food into the water to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan, but most of the food was eaten by dragons. Later, due to Qu Yuan's suggestion, they wrapped rice in neem leaves, wrapped it in colored silk, and later made it look like zongzi.
Dragon Boat Festival is a festival gradually forgotten by us. In fact, it is a trend in recent years that traditional festivals in China gradually fade away. This is not just the grim situation facing the Dragon Boat Festival. Isn't someone complaining about such an important festival as the Spring Festival? Compared with Christmas and Valentine's Day, traditional festivals are generally facing a severe test. For the Dragon Boat Festival, in the life of big cities, people simply go to the supermarket to buy some quick-frozen zongzi. Many people know little about its cultural significance, except that it is related to commemorating a poet named Qu Yuan. In 2005, gangneung danoje festival successfully declared "representative works of oral and intangible heritage of mankind", which triggered a "Dragon Boat Festival Defence War" and finally made people pay attention to this festival. However, after the "storm", our attention to traditional festivals has not changed significantly, and the idea of reviving traditional culture through festivals still needs our further reflection. We put too much emphasis on the cultural connotation of festivals, while ignoring the action cultivation in which people participate. Just like the Dragon Boat Festival, if you just eat a zongzi, for people living in the city, it is simply a measure of how far it is from the supermarket to your home.
The Dragon Boat Festival in China is a festival that people must keep a serious attitude. On this day, you should hang a purse for your child, draw a "king" on your forehead with realgar to ward off poison and evil spirits, and take your child to make bows and arrows. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Children's Day" and "Doll's Day", which makes children feel the joyful atmosphere of the festival and is the most important part of inheriting culture. For various reasons, people often adopt a perfunctory attitude of quick consumption towards traditional festivals, which is obviously not conducive to inheriting its cultural connotation.
The Dragon Boat Festival is listed as a legal festival, which provides a good environment for people to live the Dragon Boat Festival well. It will be guaranteed in time, so that its symbolic significance will be valued and more people will be awakened to the cultural memory of the Dragon Boat Festival. However, if only "two weekends" become "three weekends", it will not be a simple holiday. We should not only revive the important position of this festival in public life and maintain its authoritative cultural significance, but also dig deep into its simple and beautiful side and endow it with vitality that can be integrated with modern life.
Dragon boat festival health preservation method
1, Dragon Boat Festival health dumplings should not be eaten more. Zongzi is an important food in the Dragon Boat Festival, which is delicious and makes many people linger. However, don't eat or drink more zongzi and yellow wine in summer. The reason is that it is difficult to digest, which seriously affects our intestines and stomach and is extremely unfavorable to our health.
Here, I want to tell you that there are four kinds of people who had better not eat or eat less zongzi. They are cardiovascular patients, elderly children, gastrointestinal patients and diabetic patients.
2, drink more herbal tea, the weather is very hot during the Dragon Boat Festival, we visit relatives and friends, it is inevitable that heatstroke or heatstroke will occur. At this time, we should drink more herbal tea, such as green tea, mint tea and chrysanthemum tea. Eat less greasy food, especially for the elderly and children.
3. Exercise health is still the focus. Dragon Boat Festival is the most sunny time of the year, and the weather is rather dull. If the work pressure is high, the human body's physiological qi and blood are not running smoothly, and it is easy to be agitated and depressed, palpitations and chest tightness. Emotional changes will affect the function of zang-fu organs, and also lead to mental diseases, such as happiness and sadness, anger hurting the liver, sadness and spleen. Health preservation in summer should make the spleen, stomach, heart and lungs unobstructed. In addition to medicine and diet, we should also strengthen exercise to calm our mind.
4. Get up early in the evening and wear simple and cool clothes. How to raise yang around the Dragon Boat Festival? Huangdi Neijing tells us that "you lie down at night and get up early, and you never tire of it for a hundred days". "Go to bed late and get up early" is the same as spring, but compared with spring, the sunshine time is longer and the daytime time is longer, so go to bed late and get up early in the morning. Of course, it cannot be too late. 1 1 It's not good not to sleep after that. You'd better go to bed before half past ten. If you feel sleepy, you can take a nap at noon.
Traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival
1, 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.
2. Wear sachets
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.
3, hanging calamus leaves
There is a folk proverb that says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". 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.
4. Bell statue
It is the custom of Dragon Boat Festival for Zhong Kui to catch ghosts. In the Jianghuai area, bells and statues are hung in every household to ward off evil spirits.
5. Draw realgar for children.
Painting children with realgar is for good luck and evil spirits.