Are there any similarities and differences between the ancient Dragon Boat Festival and the current

Updated on culture 2024-04-19
16 answers
  1. Anonymous users2024-02-08

    It's sad that I'm trying to do everything quickly now, but I've lost a lot of tradition.

  2. Anonymous users2024-02-07

    The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival in China, which can also be called the "Afternoon Festival" and has a long history. In different parts of China, there are different Dragon Boat Festival customs.

    Shanghai: In Shanghai, people usually celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with zongzi, they have a unique taste, there is also a special packaging form, zongzi leaves will be tied into a special form during the festival, glutinous rice, meat, cabbage and other delicious concoctions in it, very delicious. In addition, zongzi is also the most popular gift to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

    Beijing: In Beijing, people drink rice wine during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is a special kind of Chinese wine. In general, it is made from coarse rice and carefully processed to make a sake with a unique aroma, which is mellow, sweet and delicious, and has a more fragrant flavor than ordinary sake.

    Guangdong: In Guangdong, bird's nest is usually drunk during the Dragon Boat Festival because of its benefits, such as nourishing blood, nourishing yin and beauty, etc., therefore, it is also considered to be a rich food that "nourishes blood and kidneys". People often drink a bowl of bird's nest soup together to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with each other, which also symbolizes a happy life and good hopes.

    Anhui: During the Dragon Boat Festival, Anhui people will drink "wormwood wine", a steamed wine made from barley, corn, barley malt and wormwood, which is very refreshing. It helps to nourish blood and beauty, nourish the liver and kidneys, and is also one of the drinks that make people happy in the end of the Lunar Festival.

    In general, the Dragon Boat Festival customs vary across China, but whatever it is, it embodies blessings and care, and conveys red love. This makes every festival full of excitement and walking towards warmth.

  3. Anonymous users2024-02-06

    Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats is a very ancient Dragon Boat Festival custom, which is the same as the current one, but now there are more types of zongzi.

  4. Anonymous users2024-02-05

    The oldest custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to dance the bonfire dance and paste mud on the face. Now I basically don't dance, I eat zongzi, pick mugwort leaves, and bring colorful ropes.

  5. Anonymous users2024-02-04

    The oldest Dragon Boat Festival custom is to race dragon boats, eat zongzi, hang wormwood, and drink realgar wine; It is no different from the current Dragon Boat Festival customs.

  6. Anonymous users2024-02-03

    In the same area as the Hail Filial Piety Shed, the customs and habits of the Dragon Boat Festival are different, and some places will choose to drink Xiongshen Yu Huang wine, and there are some differences with the current customs and habits, such as the type of zongzi is very different.

  7. Anonymous users2024-02-02

    1. The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Calamus Festival", "Ai Festival", "Dragon Boat Festival", "Avoiding the Boat Festival" and so on in ancient times.

    2. The ancients believed that calamus digging and wormwood have the effect of warding off evil spirits, the Dragon Boat Festival Yang Qi is vigorous, and mugwort and calamus grow luxuriantly, and people have the custom of hanging calamus or wormwood on the door every year to ward off evil spirits, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Calamus Festival" and "Ai Festival".

    3. Dragon boat racing was the earliest form of sacrificial activities of the ancestors of Wuyue in the ancient south to sacrifice the dragon and read the ancestors, and the ancestors of the south used the boat and boat commonly, and often painted the dragon figure on the boat as the totem or protector of the tribe. Dragon boat is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, so it is also called the Dragon Boat Festival.

    4. In May, in ancient times, the Central Plains in the north was called the "evil month", so in some places, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, parents sent children under the age of one year to their grandmother's house to hide in order to avoid evil, so it was called "Hiding the Boat Festival".

  8. Anonymous users2024-02-01

    The Dragon Boat Festival began in the Tang Dynasty, and the ancients would have dragon boat races before the Dragon Boat Festival, and they would also use bamboo leaves to wrap glutinous rice to steam and eat.

  9. Anonymous users2024-01-31

    It began to exist during the Zhou Dynasty. In memory of Qu Yuan. They usually eat zongzi or go to night parties. and dragon boating.

  10. Anonymous users2024-01-30

    It was very early BC. At that time, the ancients still liked to throw zongzi into the water.

  11. Anonymous users2024-01-29

    The Dragon Boat Festival began in China's Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has a history of more than 2,000 years, according to the records of the Jing Chu Years, because of the midsummer climbing, Shunyang is on the top, May is midsummer, and its first noon day is the day of ascending Shunyang's good weather, so the fifth day of the fifth month of May is also called the "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Midday Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Yulan Festival" and so on.

    In the concept of the ancients, the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is vigorous, and all things are flourishing here, which is the strongest day of the year in the herbal medicine, and the herbs picked on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival are the most effective and effective. Therefore, the ancient folk custom in the Dragon Boat Festival will be calamus, wormwood knotted, to fumigation mosquitoes, so calamus, wormwood is the representative of the Dragon Boat Festival. As one of the iconic customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, the activity of picking dragon boats has a long history, according to the literature, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the "Dragon Boat Race" activities of Guangdong folk have been very common.

    The sound of gongs and drums, dragon boat racing. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, most of the ancients put down what they were doing and gathered on both sides of the river to watch the dragon boat race, and many people also chose to feast their relatives and friends on this day, while watching the dragon boat, eating dragon boat rice, tasting Dragon Boat Festival dumplings, or playing with singing, or sitting and chatting, or playing in the water in the pavilion.

  12. Anonymous users2024-01-28

    1. Dragon Boat Festival, one of the four traditional festivals in China, is a folk festival that integrates blessings and disasters, celebrations, entertainment and food. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors who chose Duanyang "Flying Dragon in the Sky" auspicious day to worship the dragon ancestor, its origin contains a profound and rich cultural connotation, and carries a rich historical and cultural heritage in the inheritance and development. There are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, mainly including picking dragon boats, sacrificing dragons, picking herbs, hanging mugwort, playing noon water, washing herbal water, worshipping gods and ancestors, soaking dragon boat water, eating zongzi, putting paper dragons, putting paper kites, tying five-color silk threads, wearing incense sachets and other customs.

    2. Dragon boat activities are very popular in the coastal areas of southern China, and are deeply loved by people from all over the world after being spread abroad, and have formed an international competition. The custom of eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival has been prevalent in various parts of China since ancient times, and has become one of the most influential and wide-ranging folk food customs of the Chinese nation.

    3. The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China and evolved from the ancestors of Wu Yue in ancient times to hold dragon totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boats. The Dragon Boat Festival customs are rich and colorful, and these festivals revolve around praying for blessings and eliminating disasters, and entrust people's wishes to welcome auspiciousness and ward off evil spirits.

    4. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the dragon sacrifice in ancient times. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong Qisu soars to the south of the middle sky, which is the day when the dragon flies to the sky, that is, as the fifth line of the "I Ching and Qiangua" says:

    Flying dragon in the sky". The Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Star is both "in the middle" and "in the right", which is a sign of great luck. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations; In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are mixed as a whole, and the content of the festival is rich and boring.

    Dragon boat and rice dumplings are the two major rituals of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been inherited in China since ancient times and continue to this day.

  13. Anonymous users2024-01-27

    The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in our country, the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, in order to protect the intangible cultural heritage, the country was included in the national statutory holiday on January 1, 2008, and included in the list of world intangible cultural heritage.

  14. Anonymous users2024-01-26

    The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional Chinese folk festival: Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient festivals of the Chinese nation;

    The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duan.

    Fifth, Duanyang. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many other names, such as: Midday Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Yulan Festival, Daughter's Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Dila, Poet's Day, Dragon Day and so on.

  15. Anonymous users2024-01-25

    The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China.

  16. Anonymous users2024-01-24

    Yes, Qu Yuan's age is a long time ago.

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