China has a long history of culture, from ancient times to the present is handed down a lot of holidays, such as the Spring Festival we are familiar with, as well as the Dragon Boat Festival and mid-Autumn Festival, in today's China, many people are very yearning for these festivals, because as long as this holiday will have a holiday, people can stop and rest in the busy work.
The Dragon Boat Festival originated from Qu Yuan, the great poet of our country, and I think everyone will not be unfamiliar with it. In 278 BC, he was in. After jumping into the river and dying, our country lost such a great poet, and at that time, in order to protect him from being eaten by fish and shrimp, people threw rice dumplings into this river, hoping that his corpse would not be bitten by fish. In addition to this, they would row small boats to look for him on the riverside. Since then, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a very important festival in our country, and eating rice dumplings and rowing dragon boats has become a way to celebrate the festival.
There is also such a custom in the Dragon Boat Festival, that is, hanging mugwort leaves. In ancient times in our country. It has long been recorded in the medical art that the magic of mugwort leaves, mugwort leaves it is not only fragrant and clear, but also has the miraculous curative effect of treating infertility and vomiting blood. According to legend, Sun Simiao, the medicine king of the Tang Dynasty, often used mugwort to soak his feet until he died in 682, living to be 101 years old.
Although the Dragon Boat Festival has a long history, Ai Ye has also become an artifact in people's minds. However, the custom of hanging ai ye has an important relationship with the Huangchao Uprising. There is a poem called: The incense of the sky penetrates Chang'an, and the city is full of yellow armor. This ancient poem was written by Huang Chao, and the poem is to the effect that it expresses his admiration and praise for the peasant rebel army, which is used to inspire people's hearts. As Huang Chao himself, as in the poem, he led the peasants to revolt, and became a chaotic tyrant in the last years of the Tang Dynasty.
At the time of the outbreak of the Huangchao Uprising, it was in 878 years, and it began to cross more than ten provinces in China from Shandong, and the scope was even more extensive. At that time, the reputation of the imperial dynasty was not good, although it was said that he was a peasant rebel, but there was also a legend that he ate people. In the local area, in order to prevent Huang Chao from buying people's hearts, officials also released the news of his cannibalism everywhere, saying that Huang Chao's army had come. People are all facing death. At that time, the people were very frightened and fled to other places to take refuge. When Huang Chao's army came to the city, they found that there was no one here. Huang Chao was very confused about this matter, so he sent a counselor to inquire about the news, trying to find out what was going on.
After dressing up as a counselor and looking around, I finally saw a panicked woman, but this woman behaved very strangely. He took two children with him, but let the younger one walk on the ground, while the older one held it in his hands. When the counselor saw that the lady, thinking that the eldest son might be unwell and had a problem, he stopped the lady. Asking him what was going on, Madame told the counselor that because Huang Chao's army was killing people everywhere, everyone had to run. And when he asked why he took the eldest son in his hand and walked on the ground, the woman wept slightly, telling him that such a big child belonged to his sister-in-law, who had been instructed to do so before his sister-in-law died, hoping to have a good life and entertain his children. And this lady is very faithful to her promise, she can only let her children walk, and she holds his sister-in-law's children, so that she can better protect this eldest son.
The counselor was also very touched after listening to it, and told the rich man that he only had to stay at home. Plugging in Ai Ye can represent himself as the Zhongyi Family, and if he waits until Huang Chao's army comes, he can't kill the people of the Zhongyi Family. So the woman listened and quickly returned home to insert Ai Ye, and on the way back, she also told this method to the villagers who fled together, and everyone followed suit and inserted Ai Ye at the door, and Huang Chao's army did not kill them. In fact, the previous Ai Ye did not symbolize the House of Loyalty, but was just a legend deliberately fabricated by this strategist in order to win people's hearts.
In this way, the local people will not listen to the rumors of the government and regard Huang Chao's army as indiscriminate killers. However, the Huangchao rebel army is not well evaluated in history. They are all defined as indiscriminate killers. As a traditional festival in our country, the Dragon Boat Festival has customs related to Qu Yuan and is also directly related to the Yellow Nest. This commemoration day is not only for us to understand the legends, but also contains a rich cultural heritage, which is worthy of our praise and learning.