Talking about the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival customs of Fujian and Taiwan

Go"King Gong"Zhao'an County, Zhangzhou City, for hundreds of years, the Dragon Boat Festival to go to the "Gongwang" folk customs, is unique in the country. Every Dragon Boat Festival, the local villagers respectively from the two temples to carry out the "Kaizhang Holy King" Chen Yuanguang's subordinate general Shen Shiji, Li Boyao two generals of the statue travel, around the Beiguan street tour, by the temple lantern leading, swords, axes and halberds list double rows, the community queued up, singing the original name of the dragon boat drum song of the "Gongwang Song", very lively.

In Zhangzhou, people regard the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival second only to the Spring Festival, and the folk have the custom of wrapping zongzi, lo mein, preparing dishes to worship the ancestors, worshiping the gods, and at the same time, there is also the custom of not steaming kueh to make zongzi and giving zongzi to the bereaved family.

Give the ancient well a "bath".

In the Eryi Building of the Dadi Tulou Group in Xiandu Town, Hua'an County, the ancient well is "bathed" during the Dragon Boat Festival every year, which is their custom that has continued for more than 200 years. After 12 noon on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the cleaners first dismantled the ground part of the ancient well and cleaned a manhole cover and two auxiliary manhole covers.

Then the well water is drained, and one person goes down to the bottom of the well at a depth of 4 meters to remove silt and debris. After cleaning, 5 catties of salt should be sprinkled into the well to remove the odor, and then the manhole cover should be sealed.

Duck hunting in water races.

Xiamen's cross-strait dragon boat race is famous, and the water race to catch ducks is a unique custom of the Dragon Boat Festival popular in southern Fujian. During the dragon boat race, a cage with ducks hidden in it is hung on the mast, and there are also piglets inside.

The mast is placed horizontally, stretching from the shore to the sea, the pole is greased, and those who volunteer to catch the ducks should follow the mast quickly to the surface of the sea, reach the mast and catch the cage, at which point the ducks fly into the sea, and then swim and chase the ducks. Many people slipped and fell into the sea halfway to the mast, causing bursts of laughter from the spectators on the shore.

It is said that this was the method used by the national hero Zheng Chenggong to train sailors, and this custom was also very popular in Quanzhou and other places.

Taste the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, a Chinese custom festival.

Due to regional relations and historical reasons, the Dragon Boat Festival customs in southern Fujian continue the traditional customs of the Chinese nation, while also retaining their own unique folk customs, forming different forms and colorful folk activities.

Professor Shi Yilong, executive vice president of the Fujian Folklore Society, said that there are three common customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in southern Fujian: one is to repel drugs, insects, and avoid evil spirits, such as bathing with bluegrass water at noon during the Dragon Boat Festival, stir-frying salt as noon salt, and picking herbs as noon tea; One is to eat alkali zongzi, hair cake and other Dragon Boat Festival ritual foods; One is dragon boating, which has the characteristics of both Central Plains culture and marine culture.

All parts of southern Fujian also have their own unique Dragon Boat Festival customs. According to reports, there are many customs of praying for blessings and eliminating disasters during the Dragon Boat Festival in Quanzhou, including inserting "five rui" (that is, five kinds of plants) on the lintel, wearing sachets on children's chests, soaking realgar wine, and stir-frying noon salt. In addition, there is a kind of humorous custom of exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters called "picking lotus", there are soldiers in the lotus-picking team, gongs and drums, flower girls or jacquard women dressed as men, by a sloppy appearance, holding a long pole flag "drunk" as a leader, and finally by four people carrying a wooden carved dragon head to press the formation, for the people along the way to enter the house to dance the flag sweep.

Zhao'an County, Zhangzhou City, for hundreds of years, the folk customs of "Gongwang" have been loved by the local villagers. Every Dragon Boat Festival, the local villagers carry the statues of Shen Century and Li Boyao from the two temples respectively, when they travel around the Beiguan Street, they are led by the temple lanterns, the swords, axes and halberds are lined up in two rows, and the community queues up and then sings the "Song of the Tribute King" of the original name of the dragon boat drum song, which is very lively. Qing Dynasty Jinshi Huang Kaitai has a song "Duanyang Tribute King Bamboo Branch Words" to record its grand occasion:

The city sang the song of the king of tribute, and marched in the streets with drums and gongs. The Dragon Boat Festival is because of the bottom matter? Kaizhang's heroic achievements are indelibable.

The Dragon Boat Festival custom of Xiamen City is also very lively, according to the "Xiamen Chronicles" of the Qing Daoguang period: "On May 5th, the Dragon Boat Festival hangs Pu, Ai, and Banyan branches in the door, and sticks the charm to make the winning and the dumplings to give each other. Race on the waterfront ......or more than ten days.

In addition, during the Dragon Boat Festival, Xiamen also has a traditional folk sports activity "catch ducks", the arena is set on the water, participants have to walk through a log column coated with lubricating oil, and then open a wooden box containing ducks, and then jump into the water to catch the ducks that have fallen. The scene is hot, with a strong southern Fujian style.

The Jinjiang area has the custom of frying "of" eating during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Because of the ancient legend of the Jinjiang area, fry the "of" mending the sky.

"of" is a homonym for Hokkien dialect.

It is made with flour and sugar and fried.

Sweet, a round piece.

The customs of the Fujian Dragon Boat Festival include dragon boating, and dragon boat rowing is undoubtedly one of the grandest programs of the Fujian Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boating, also known as dragon boating, is a multi-person collective paddle competition, is the main custom of the traditional Han festival Dragon Boat Festival, originated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions.

Originally a festival for the Chinese to eliminate diseases and prevent epidemics, before the spring and autumn of Wuyue Land, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and later because the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became a traditional festival custom of the Chinese Han people to commemorate Qu Yuan, and it is also one of the representatives of the Han dragon totem culture.