You wouldn't think that only China celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival, do you?
In 2005, South Korea's "Dragon Boat Festival" successful application for the World Intangible Cultural Heritage caused a large number of controversies on the Internet, and netizens said that the Dragon Boat Festival was Chinese.
In 2009, China's "Dragon Boat Festival" also applied for the World Intangible Cultural Heritage, and became the only world heritage project in the mainland that year.
Two countries have successfully applied for heritage, so which is the right root?
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In China, there are several origins of the Dragon Boat Festival, but the most widely circulated is to commemorate qu Yuan, the great patriotic poet of the mainland.
After Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River, the people of the Chu State were very sad, and the fishermen rowed boats to the river to salvage, they were afraid that the fish and shrimp would eat Qu Yuan's body, so they threw jiang rice into the sea one by one.
This has gradually evolved into the custom of paddling dragon boats and eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival today.
Legend has it that people also poured a pot of male yellow wine into the river, hoping to cure the dragon in the river, and there was really a dragon floating on the surface of the water, so people pulled out the veins of this dragon, tied it to the wrist and neck of the child, and smeared the male yellow on the child's body, so that all kinds of poisonous insects did not dare to invade.
Of course, this seems very mythical to us today, but it has also evolved into the custom of drinking xionghuang wine and tying colorful ropes during the Dragon Boat Festival.
In addition, the Chinese people will also hang wormwood at the door on this day, taking the meaning of epidemic prevention and evil, because this season is the time when various bacteria, poisonous insects, and epidemics are prevalent, and wormwood has a special fragrance, which is a medicinal plant that can repel insects and sterilize, so people often use it to bathe and bathe, hoping to drive away evil qi.
Since China's Dragon Boat Festival has a long history, why did South Korea successfully apply for heritage?
If you go to Korea, what Dragon Boat Festival customs will you see?
Did China's Dragon Boat Festival really let South Korea take it?
In 2005, when the news came that South Korea had applied for the Dragon Boat Festival as an intangible cultural heritage, Chinese people really couldn't sit still, how did my Dragon Boat Festival for thousands of years become your country?
Until 2009, the mainland also successfully applied for the Dragon Boat Festival.
Curious people may ask, how can two countries successfully apply for heritage in the same festival?
In fact, South Korea is not the Dragon Boat Festival of the application, but the "Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival", because South Korea has occupied the word "Dragon Boat Festival" in advance, so the Dragon Boat Festival on the mainland is not called the Dragon Boat Festival, but called the "Dragon Boat Festival", so it seems that it is still different in essence.
We are commemorating Qu Yuan, but South Korea held a festival on this day, the entire Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival starts from brewing, the duration can reach more than fifty days, if this is placed in China, then the Dragon Boat Festival three days of small long holiday properly turned into summer vacation.
If you go to Korea just in time for the Dragon Boat Festival, you will find that from April 5th, the Smectas began to brew sacred wine, followed by various ritual activities, such as the God Greeting Festival, the Feng'an Festival, and so on.
On the 5th of May, they hold official slave mask plays and witch witch rituals, and in the evening there are various witchcraft performances, and the next day there is a burning ceremony, also known as the sacrifice of the gods.
They worshiped mountain gods and patron saints of both sexes and men and women with shamanic rituals.
Speaking of shamanic rituals, some of the little friends may be able to remember that after the poisoning of the fragrant concubines in the Zhu Gege, the emperor called out to the shaman mage to do it?
Yes, shamanism is common among the peoples of northeast Asia, and shamanism was practiced before the Qing Dynasty entered the customs.
In addition, Korean folk also hold a series of activities, such as wrestling, pot throwing, swing and so on.
The scene is also grand and lively.
So if you go to Japan, how will you spend the Dragon Boat Festival?
You may be surprised, how, do Japanese people also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?
Of course, Japan's Dragon Boat Festival was introduced from China, and with the continuous change of culture over time, Japan has developed it into a festival with its own national characteristics.
At the beginning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Japanese also hung wormwood and ate zongzi like us, in addition to zongzi, they also ate cypress leaf cakes, which can be said to have basically inherited the customs of the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.
Later, the japanese martial arts atmosphere began to become popular, so on this day, the family of boys will prepare small ornaments for the children early, such as placing armor, helmets, etc. at home, and will also hang carp flags in front of the door, many Japanese anime often mention, in fact, this is also derived from the legend of the Chinese carp leaping dragon gate, hanging carp flags also represents the expectations of Jackie Chan.
As a result, the Dragon Boat Festival gradually became a boy's day symbolizing the samurai.
Not only Japan, if you come to Vietnam, you will find that Vietnamese people also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.
In Vietnam, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Zhengyang Festival, and people will also eat rice dumplings, drink Xionghuang wine, and tie five-colored silk threads to children on this day to seek peace.
It is not difficult to see that their Dragon Boat Festival was also imported from China, because Vietnam was also ruled by China in ancient times, so Vietnam's Dragon Boat Festival customs are basically similar to China, but they do not know who Qu Yuan is.
If you're in Singapore, you can also eat rice dumplings at East Coast Park and watch a dragon boat invitational race made up of dragon boat teams from around the world.
From this point of view, as a traditional festival in China, the Dragon Boat Festival has been loved by more and more people for thousands of years, and the charm of Chinese culture will also go to the world.
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