Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Daughter's Day, Noon Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Summer Festival, etc.
Zhong Kui culture Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals of the Han nationality. The essential activities on this day gradually evolved into inviting Zhong Kui, Zhong Kui to dance, Zhong Kui to have fun, eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood, mugwort leaves, smoked Atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica, tying Cynanchum bungeanum and making fragrant troughs. Dragon Boat Festival is a very grand festival, especially with the active participation of people from Zhong Kui, Zhong Kui, Zhong Kui and Dragon Boat Race (water town), which is celebrated by the whole people.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, every household invited "Tang Fuzhen Zhai Sheng Jun" Zhong Kui to be a guest at home. It is said that Zhong Kui was invited into the house: "Bless Zhai Zhen, only Zhong Kui", "Invite Zhong Kui to win the first prize in the list" and "Zhong Kui miraculously appeared to send us a happy birthday." Comrade Mao Zedong also wrote in his letter to Jiang Qing on July 8, 1966/kloc-0: "With the help of Zhong Kui, he blessed the town house and invited Zhong Kui.
Throughout the year, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, people will also go to the temple of Zhong Kui's hometown in Zhongnan Town-"Tang Fuzhen Zhai Sheng Jun" to pray, cultivate themselves, raise their health, board and lodging, take vacations and visit, so as to be happy and healthy. ① Invite Zhong Kui: Before Dragon Boat Festival and Spring Festival, people invited Zhong Kui to their home, or tied Zhong Kui Yu Pei to their chests, saying, "Bless the town house, only Zhong Kui". "Call Zhong Kui, won the list prize". Zhong Kui is a miracle. Send us a happy birthday. According to research, Zhong Kui's hometown is Zhong Kui's hometown temple in Zhongnan Town, zhouzhi county City, Shaanxi Province.
(2) Dancing Zhong Kui and disturbing Zhong Kui: Since the Jin Dynasty, dancing Zhong Kui and disturbing Zhong Kui and Fuzhen House have been the important contents of Dragon Boat Festival and Spring Festival. According to the research of experts from Zhong Kui Institute of Culture and Art, inviting Zhong Kui, dancing in Zhong Kui and making trouble in Zhong Kui are very important Han folk cultural activities since ancient times. People call the Dragon Boat Festival "Zhong Kui Culture Dragon Boat Festival". People sing and dance on the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that Zhong Kui can cut off the five poisons, eliminate all diseases and protect the town house.
(3) Dragon Boat Race: In water towns, people race dragon boats on May 5th to commemorate Qu Yuan, and sometimes people hang a statue of Qu Yuan or Zhong Kui on the bow. The habit of competition prevailed in wuyue and Chu. On this day, people rushed to the shore, cheering and shouting, and the racers spared no effort to win the championship bravely. The scene is grand and lively.
④ Eating zongzi: On May 5th, glutinous rice or steamed zongzi cakes are cooked and thrown into rivers, seas, lakes and rivers to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan. At the same time, there is the custom of wrapping zongzi for the married daughter to eat together.
⑤ Wear sachets: On Dragon Boat Festival, children will wear sachets. There are cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine in the sachet, which is wrapped in silk cloth and smells fragrant. Then tied into a string with five-color silk threads, with different shapes and exquisite and eye-catching. It is said that they can drive away evil spirits and eliminate plagues.
⑥ Hanging Acorus calamus and Ficus microcarpa branches: On the Dragon Boat Festival, the Han people often use Acorus calamus, Artemisia argyi and Ficus microcarpa branches to make human figures, which are called Ai people. Cut mugwort leaves into tiger shapes, and women compete to wear them, or hang them in the hall, using calamus as swords and inserting them on the lintel. It is said that it has the effect of exorcism, and it also has the effect of hanging the real Zhong Kui Yu Pei on the chest to eliminate all diseases and ensure peace.
Throughout the year, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, people will go to Zhong Kui's hometown temple "Tang Sheng Qi Fu Town House" to pray for happiness and well-being.
In addition, there are customs such as realgar wine and swimming in all diseases. Spring Festival: the first day of the first lunar month, also refers to the day after the first lunar month. Spring Festival is commonly known as "New Year's Day", formerly known as "New Year's Day". Du Taiqing of Sui Dynasty said in Five Candles Collection: "The first month is the end of the month, and one day is the day of Yuan, which is also a cloud." The original meaning of "yuan" is "head" and later extended to "start" Because this day is the first day of the year, the first day of spring and the first day of the first month, it is called "Sanyuan". Because this day is still the old dynasty, the moon dynasty and the Japanese dynasty, it is also called the "three dynasties"; Because it is the first Shuori, it is also called "Yuanshuo". On the first day of the first month, there are other nicknames such as Shangri-La, Zheng Chao, Sanshuo and Shisan, meaning that the first day of the first month is the beginning of the year, month and day.
It is difficult to know when the custom of the Spring Festival originated, but it is generally believed that it originated from the activities of offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors in the late Yin and Shang Dynasties. The first month of the lunar calendar (65438+ 10 month) is the beginning of a year. In the first month or the middle of the first month, most of the time happens to be beginning of spring (a small part of beginning of spring is in the late twelfth month), which is named Spring Festival; The final determination of the specific time of the festival is believed to be related to the minimum impact on agricultural work at this time. The last day of the lunar year (30th and 29th of the lunar month) is called "New Year's Eve". On New Year's Eve, the whole family get together for dinner (the last meal of the Lunar New Year). After dinner, there are customs of staying up late and giving lucky money, which means keeping the first day of the next year from the last day of the lunar new year. Therefore, this festival is also called China New Year.
According to legend, in ancient times, Nian beast was specially used to invade the world. In order to drive away Nian beast, people keep vigil, and stick gods of Zhong Kui, Shen Tu, Lei Yu, Qin Qiong and Jingde on the door to ward off evil spirits, set off firecrackers and hang red lights to scare them away. During the Spring Festival, since the Tang Dynasty, many places in China have invited Zhong Kui into the house. During the Spring Festival, Zhong Kui is the god who guards the door, protects welfare, houses and drives away animals. "Blessing the town house is only true to Zhong Kui", "Inviting Zhong Kui won the first place in the list", "Zhong Kui is a true god, send us a blessing, happy birthday" (Zhong Kui, the hometown temple in Xizhou, Shaanxi Province, with the trademark "Zhong Kui's hometown", called true Zhong Kui).
When the door is opened in the morning of the Spring Festival, firecrackers are set off first, which is called "opening the door to set off firecrackers". After the firecrackers, it was smashed all over the place, and it was called "full house". At this time, the streets were full of anger and joy.
During the Spring Festival, people also hold Zhong Kui, Zhong Kui, Shehuo, Yangko, gongs and drums and other Han folk activities.
According to the research of experts from Zhong Kui Institute of Culture and Art, since the Jin Dynasty, inviting Zhong Kui, dancing in Zhong Kui and being a Zhong Kui has been an important traditional cultural content of the Han nationality's Spring Festival and Dragon Boat Festival. During the Spring Festival, people sang and danced, and invited Zhong Kui, Zhong Kui and Zhong Kui to set off firecrackers, gongs and drums blaring, and the whole people celebrated.
Another important activity in the Spring Festival is to pay a New Year call to friends, relatives and neighbors.
Paying New Year greetings is a traditional custom of the Han people in China, and it is a way for people to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and express their best wishes to each other. In ancient times, the original meaning of the word "Happy New Year" was to pay New Year greetings to the elderly, including kowtowing to the elderly, congratulating them on a happy New Year and greeting their lives. In case of friends and relatives of the same generation, you should also salute and congratulate.
During the Spring Festival, there are many other traditional Han folk cultural activities all over the country.
Throughout the year, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, people also go to the temple in Zhong Kui's hometown, "Tang Fuzhen Zhai Sheng Jun", to pray, cultivate one's morality, raise one's health, board and lodging, take vacations and visit, in order to be happy and healthy.