1, origin:
Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Noon Festival, Summer Festival and Pujie Festival. It was originally a festival to drive away the plague in summer. Later, Chu poet Qu Yuan threw himself into the river on the Dragon Boat Festival, which became a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan (in memory of Wu Zixu, a loyal minister of the State of Wu), as well as the Spring Festival and Pujie Festival.
2. Legend:
Ten Theories of Dragon Boat Festival
Cai Yong said that the Dragon Boat Festival is a dragon festival. Wen Yiduo's textual research on the Dragon Boat Festival shows that the Dragon Boat Festival is a totem festival held in ancient wuyue, and it is actually a Dragon Boat Festival.
The second theory holds that the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of Chu State. According to Qi Xuheng, Qu Yuan died in the Miluo River on the fifth day of May. On this day, Chu people threw rice into the river with bamboo tubes to mourn.
According to the Book of Rites, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the orchid bath in the Zhou Dynasty.
According to these four theories, the Dragon Boat Festival recorded by Cai Yong in Cao Qin in the Eastern Han Dynasty is a memorial to the sages.
According to five theories, the Dragon Boat Festival published by Song Gaocheng originated in the Spring and Autumn Period, and Gou Jian, the king of Yue, practiced the water army every day.
According to the sixth theory, Liang Zonggu's Chronicle of Jingzhou Age tells about the Dragon Boat Festival in order to welcome Wu Zixu, the Taoist God. The Book of Were Han also wrote that Zhejiang wished Cao to dance on the Cao 'e River on the fifth day of May to welcome Wu Zixu. Later, people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang held various counter-current ceremonies to mourn Wu Zixu during the Dragon Boat Festival.
Seven said that the book records that the fifth day of May is the day of ancestor worship.
According to Records of Historical Records and Biography of Huo Zhi, the Dragon Boat Festival was held to commemorate Cao E's death in search of his father and his suicide in the river.
According to Jiu Shuo, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the summer solstice festival in Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. At that time, it was midsummer, and everything flourished from summer to Japan, and there was nothing to be afraid of. Therefore, on the fifth day of May, five-color seals were used as portals to punish evil spirits.
Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from Husha Lake in Mianyang, Hubei Province. Four heroes who robbed the rich and helped the poor were besieged by local officers and soldiers on the fifth day of May and drowned in the river. The local people were very sad and designated this day as the Dragon Boat Festival to show their condolences.
3. Customs:
Dragon boat festival custom
Dragon Boat Racing
Before the dragon boat race, please invite dragons to offer sacrifices to the gods. For example, before the Dragon Boat Festival in Guangdong, you should go out of the water, worship the Nanhai God in the Nanhai Temple, install the dragon head and tail, and then prepare for the race. And buy a pair of paper cocks and put them on the dragon boat, thinking that they can keep the boat safe (vaguely corresponding to the ancient bird boat). Fujian and Taiwan went to Mazu Tempel to worship. Some directly kill chickens in dragon festival by the river, and the dragon first drops blood, such as Sichuan, Guizhou and other individual areas.
In Miluo County, Hunan Province, before the dragon boat race, you must go to Quzi Temple to worship the dragon head, put red cloth on the dragon head, and then race the dragon boat, not only to worship the dragon god, but also to commemorate Qu Yuan.
All kinds of sacrificial ceremonies and commemorative ceremonies are nothing more than burning incense and burning money for roast chicken, cooking rice, burning meat, offering fruit, zongzi and so on. Nowadays, these superstitious ceremonies are rare, but in the past, when people went to the Dragon Palace to offer sacrifices, the atmosphere was very serious, praying for a bumper harvest in agriculture, good weather, evil spirits and all the best, and wishing boating safety. In people's words, "to be auspicious" expresses people's inner good wishes.
At the beginning of the official competition, the atmosphere was very warm. Modern dragon boat races are basically the same, but the rules are a little stricter. In recent years, international dragon boat races have appeared at home and abroad, attracting athletes from all over the world. Dragon Boat Racing
Besides speed races, there are other activities, such as dragon boat rowing. For example, the dragon boat goes to the countryside, that is, rowing the dragon boat to a familiar village nearby to play and gather. Sometimes the dragon boat also has various tricks, which means performing. And boat races.
There are night dragon boats and dry dragon boats, which are simulated dragon boat races on land. In addition, I want to talk about the female dragon boat. In the past, women were not allowed to participate in dragon boat races in many places, and it was considered unlucky for women to touch the dragon boat. Nowadays, women's dragon boat teams have appeared all over the country, and heroic women are brave enough to win glory and compete for the first place, not weaker than men.