Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to commemorate and worship noble souls. Dragon Boat Festival is a time full of life challenges, and it is also a time to protect life, strengthen the soul and cheer up the spirit.
Remembering and offering sacrifices to the sages who gave their lives for the country and the people, and enhancing the feelings of home and country are the themes of the Dragon Boat Festival. The hero represented by Qu Yuan is still the object of sacrifice everywhere.
Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet who laments the hardships of ordinary people, will go up and down to seek, has become a spiritual idol remembered by China throughout the Dragon Boat Festival because of his noble personality.
In the Song Dynasty, Su Shi personally saw Qu Yuan's hometown people in the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. The poem "Chu people mourn for Qu Yuan for thousands of years" has left us with precious holiday pictures.
The spirit of Qu Yuan and other historical sages is still circulating in the mountains and rivers of my hometown. Today, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people race dragon boats on the river and sing evocation and requiem.
The old ballad "If there is something, there is nothing, don't wait for the cold wind blowing by the river" is still in the hearts of Qu Zi's hometown people. Zigui people use zongzi to symbolize Qu Yuan's experience and personality. There is such a song "Song of Zongzi" circulating in the local area, which is angular and has a heart. A white suit, half my life.
The practical significance of the letter in Dragon Boat Festival;
1, pray for peace: since ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival has the inherent meaning of praying for peace. On this day, ancient people will organize a welcome banquet, wear longevity wisps, paint their foreheads, wash herbal water and other themed activities to pray for the safety of their loved ones and themselves.
So the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival, and the game is very grand. Until now, people still attach great importance to the Dragon Boat Festival and even regard it as a national statutory holiday.
2. Avoid evil spirits and disasters: A key metaphor of the Dragon Boat Festival is to avoid five poisons, evil spirits and disasters.
Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood, Acorus calamus, Wufu, Cynanchum atratum, Wushui, Moxibustion plaster, Dai Paeonia Rubra, 100 ginger, kudzu vine, sachet, colored rope, cardamom, Wudu map, Zhong Kui statue and realgar should be hung to drink realgar for disaster relief.
3, of course admire: Dragon Boat Festival also has a metaphor of course admire, which is related to the original origin of Dragon Boat Festival.
As early as ancient times, people have been full of respect for nature, and even worshipped dragon totem and nature on the fifth day of May. Therefore, there is a custom of dragon boat race in folk customs, which is still one of the most important folk activities of the Dragon Boat Festival.