In China, the Fifth Dragon Boat Festival in the first five months of the lunar calendar is a traditional festival, people will eat rice dumplings, race dragon boats and hang wormwood on the porch to commemorate the Warring States poet Qu Yuan toujiang suicide, and Wu Zixu was also thrown into the Qiantang River, Cao E cast the Cao E River to save her father, so this day, should be a serious and sad day, not a festival for mutual assistance, but with the same emotions as the Qingming Festival. So on this day, everyone can help each other and be healthy, which is more in line with the meaning of this festival.
Eating Zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival is an essential food, but do you know the meaning of eating Zongzi?
There are five major meanings: there is a "Zongzi" harmonic sound "neutron", the meaning of asking for a son, "Zongzi" is the harmonic sound of "many sons", implying that people are prosperous. There is the meaning of driving away the dragon, according to legend, the things that are sacrificed have been stolen by the dragons in the river, and they can be wrapped in ai ye in the future and tied with five-colored silk threads, and the dragons are afraid of these two things. There is the meaning of Guangzong Yaozu, because "Zong" and "Zong" are close, so eating Zongzi in the Dragon Boat Festival means "Guangzong Yaozu", so everyone in every household eats Zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. In order to commemorate Qu Yuan, every day, people use bamboo tubes to pack rice and throw them into the river to pay tribute, which is the origin of the mainland's early rice dumplings - "tube dumplings". There is also the name of the gong, because the "zong" and "zhong" sound close, take the meaning of "gong name get in the middle", so in the Dragon Boat Festival, to take the first person in the gong name to eat zongzi can mean the lift.
In childhood memories, every Dragon Boat Festival, every household wrapped rice dumplings, boiled tea eggs and salted eggs stained with red, before entering the door, the smell was fragrant, picked up a few salted duck eggs with a hard shell, hung on the chest with colorful mesh bags, walked on the way to school with their heads held high, challenged the egg collision game with their classmates, first hit the loser to lose, and then challenged the next one, only to find that the classmates were eggs made of wood, and then chased and ended in a burst of laughter.
Why eat eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival? The egg is broken from the outside is food, and the break from the inside out is the birth of life, a continuation of power. At present, there are still many urban and suburban women who send red eggs to their neighbors after giving birth to children, which is also a secret combination of the meaning of life, which conveys people's reverence and reverence for life and fertility.
The Dragon Boat Festival is also a more poisonous day in the Five Poisonous Months, with snakes and insects breeding and poisonous plagues being prone to growth. The ancients wanted to drive away evil spirits and avoid epidemics on this day, and there was a custom of sprinkling yellow and driving away poison.
Xionghuang is a traditional Chinese medicinal herb with bactericidal, insecticidal and detoxifying effects. Using it to make male yellow wine, the ancients believed that it could drive away demons and avoid evil spirits, so there was a custom of drinking male yellow wine during the Dragon Boat Festival; it was smeared on children's cheeks, ears and noses, or written on the forehead corner of a "king" word, like a tiger; the snake was very sensitive to it, but after adding alcohol, the male yellow repellent snake was farther away, the effect was greater, and the snake would be thousands of miles away. In order to remove the obscurity, to remove the haze and the scorching qi, then the sprinkling of yellow is to drive away the dark things around it, the obscure things.
Children will also wear sachets during the Dragon Boat Festival, which not only has the meaning of avoiding evil and driving away plague, but also has the wind of placket embellishment; the elderly are healthy in order to prevent diseases. Sachets, also known as sachets, flower sachets, also called purses, are wrapped in silk thread. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the drug or its coarse powder is packed in a special sac-shaped cloth bag, worn on the chest, waist or in a close-fitting pocket, or hung in a bed tent or rut to prevent certain diseases.
The Dragon Boat Festival also has the custom of dragon boat racing, which has been preserved to this day to commemorate Qu Yuan.
Legend has it that when Qu Yuan was in the country, all thoughts were thrown into the Miluo River, and this patriotic feeling made the people admire and regret it, and the Dragon Boat Race during the Dragon Boat Festival was to commemorate Qu Yuan.
After Qu Yuan's death, the people of the Chu state flocked to the Miluo River to hang themselves, rowed boats, and fished their real bodies back and forth on the river, and they scrambled to chase them to Dongting Lake or disappeared; after that, every year on May 5, they rowed dragon boats to commemorate him, and used dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body.
The custom of hanging wormwood on the gate of the Dragon Boat Festival is also exquisite, generally one is enough, the number is 5-7, because the ancients' habit is to hang a single without hanging a double.
When is the right time to hang wormwood? It is best to be in the first three days of the Dragon Boat Festival, the folk have the first three and four back four sayings, miss this time can also be hung within four days after the Dragon Boat Festival, within these seven days can be; because the Dragon Boat Festival temperature is relatively high, mosquitoes and some poisonous animals have also increased, there are days of humid heat, five toxic restless sayings. Therefore, the fragrant smell of wormwood can not only drive away mosquitoes, but also have the beautiful meaning of driving away evil spirits and avoiding disasters.
It should be noted that this wormwood is hung up, after the Dragon Boat Festival, the wormwood will slowly wither, experienced elders know that wormwood will generally not be taken down after hanging, which is called a beginning and an end. In addition, withered wormwood is a good thing, and the longer the better, the collection of usually soaked feet has a high medicinal value. There is also a folk saying that "seven years of illness should seek three years of aids".
One dragon boat festival a year, one year old and one healthy. The Dragon Boat Festival has arrived and it is halfway through the year, and the Dragon Boat Festival is good, which means that the second half of the year will be smooth sailing, and good luck is always accompanied!
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