The earliest appearance of the word Dragon Boat Festival is the "Record of Customs": "The Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is also the fifth day of May, and the custom is also this day, which is the same as the summer solstice." ”
Among the many legends about the Dragon Boat Festival, the most widely circulated and the most said is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. His spirit of martyrdom and self-inflicted suicide has influenced millions of future generations, and the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually become one of the most important traditional festivals of the Chinese nation, accumulating several years of historical and cultural connotations and fireworks in the world.
Every Dragon Boat Festival is full of flavor and lively and joyful atmosphere. As the song "May 5, is Duan Yang; Eat rice dumplings, hang sachets; Door insertion, incense full of hall; The dragon boat was launched into the water. These customs not only pin people's wishes for good fortune and disaster elimination, but also send people's remembrance of martyrs.
Zongzi incense, incense kitchen; mugwort incense, incense full of hall; peach branches inserted in the gate, out of the door to look at the wheat yellow. "Selling rice dumplings ~ small dates honey jujube eh", this cry brings people back to the days when they were children and waiting for rice dumplings on the window, and all kinds of rice dumplings make the hot summer day sweet. Looking up at Mai Mang, I know that it is the season of wheat ripening again, and today, when the people were hungry in comparison with the people in the past, I recalled that Academician Yuan Longping took root in the field and devoted his life to the people's food and clothing, and the last moment of his life was still most concerned about the rice ears in the experimental field. Standing on the shoulders of our predecessors, we should inherit this dedication and learn this perseverance. Three meals a day, the aroma of rice is pervasive, and the full-eater should often remember Yuan Gong.
Qingming willow, Dragon Boat Festival. There are three thousand ai in the house, and Langzhong does not use it. In the summer when the weather is gradually hot, the folk have the saying of "five poisons awake", and wormwood has a certain pharmacological effect, at which time it will cook wormwood at home, which has the meaning of bringing health to the family. The most simple care of the family will always make the warm current in the heart run endlessly, people who live fast-paced life can always get the habitat of the soul in the family, and they must also care more about the family after being busy, return to the family, feel the initial warmth and softness, slow down, and maybe enjoy a more beautiful scenery.
At noon on the fifth of May, give you a museh. On the fifth day of good luck, bow down to wish you a good day.
Text/Ren Fengyao
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