How much do you know about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is rumored to be Qu Yuan fo

The earliest Dragon Boat Festival is not to commemorate Qu Yuan, long before Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival existed, at the beginning of the Dragon Boat Festival was the ancient dragon as the totem of the tribe in order to worship the dragon ancestor, pray for a good harvest, drive away disasters and evil spirits and engage in sacrificial activities.

When it comes to the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, many people think that it is to commemorate Qu Yuan, and even my primary school Chinese textbooks say so, but then I read Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival" and "Dragon Boat Festival History Education", and became interested in the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival and checked a lot of informationfound that the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival had nothing to do with Qu Yuan.

As mentioned at the beginning, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival can be much earlier than Qu Yuan, Mr. Wen Yiduo believes that the Dragon Boat Festival is "as old as the Chinese people", and the Dragon Boat Festival was originally created by the ancient tribes with dragon totem as the belief in sacrifices, and after a long period of development and evolution, it has become a traditional festival of the entire Chinese nation.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Baiyue area (south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River) in the pre-Qin era, when people watched the sky to eat, and when the grain was planted, they had to engage in some sacrificial activities to pray for a good harvest year.

In addition to praying for a good harvest, but also to drive away disasters, the Dragon Boat Festival at that time was not the same as now, in ancient times, May was regarded as an evil month, and the fifth day of the fifth month of May was regarded as a bad month and a bad day, which was the most unlucky day.

Because the day of May 5 is very close to the summer solstice (or it may be the same day), the sun is the most intense, the weather is the hottest and humid, such weather not only has flies and mosquitoes, but also easy to breed all kinds of germs, epidemics, in ancient times when medical conditions were backward, people were easy to get sick and die.

In ancient times, there was a nursery rhyme that sang: "Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot, the five poisons wake up, and there is no rest." ”

Therefore, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, people sacrificed not only for the agricultural harvest, but also to pray for disaster repellent, which can be seen from this festival at the beginning and Qu Yuan had no half-cent relationship.

The first to associate Qu Yuan and the Dragon Boat Festival was the Southern Liang writer Wu JunZhiwei ** "Continuation of Qi Harmonics".: Qu Yuan threw Miluo water on May 5, and the Chu people mourned, so on this day, they stored rice in bamboo tubes and threw water to sacrifice it. Han Jianwuzhong, Changsha District Qu, daytime suddenly saw a scholar, from Yun Sanlu doctor, said Qu said:

Wen Jun should see the sacrifice, very good. But what is left over the years is always stolen by the dragon. If there is a benefit today, you can stuff it with neem leaves, and wrap it with colored silk, which is also feared by the dragon.

Qu according to his words. Today, people make rice dumplings on May 5, and bring neem leaves and five-color silk, all of which are the legacy of Miluo water.

When this ** was written, Qu Yuan had been dead for more than 700 years, so he really couldn't take it seriously.

In fact, in addition to Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival also commemorates Wu Zixu, Jie Zitui, Yue Wang Goujian, and Cao'e, but the most well-known is the story of Qu Yuan, probably because Qu Yuan is not only good at writing, but also worried about the country and the people, and is very loved by the people.

Qu Yuan did not have the Dragon Boat Festival before, Qu Yuan chose to throw himself into the river to prove his innocence because he was slandered, and the local people threw a lot of rice into the water in order to prevent the fish and shrimp in the river from eating his body, which evolved into the later zongzi, which is the ** of the Dragon Boat Festival.

In fact, before Qu Yuan, there was no Dragon Boat Festival of the Dragon Boat Festival, mainly because Qu Yuan, as a patriotic poet, finally committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, and people had this festival in order to commemorate him.

Qu Yuan did not have the Dragon Boat Festival before, and the ** of the Dragon Boat Festival was actually to commemorate Qu Yuan, and then the day of Qu Yuan's throwing into the river was set as the Dragon Boat Festival.

The story of Qu Yuan and Zongzi:

1. According to historical records, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 278 BC, Qu Yuan, a doctor and patriotic poet of Chu, heard the news that the Qin army had broken through the capital of Chu, and his heart was like a knife.

2. The people along the river have led boats to race to salvage, summoning spirits along the water, so as not to spoil Qu Yuan's corpse with fish and shrimp, and an old doctor brought a jar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that it was to stun the dragon and water beast with medicine, so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. In order to prevent the fish and shrimp from eroding Quzi, the people threw rice grains into the river one after another, hoping that the fish and shrimp would only eat these rice grains without damaging Quzi's body.

3. Then, according to ancient records, it was Qu Yuan who dreamed of the people who said that the rice grain was actually eaten by the dragon in the river when it was put into the river, and if it was wrapped in mugwort leaves and tied with a five-color rope, it could be saved from being swallowed by the dragon; This is why there were later zongzi. Slowly there is the custom of eating zongzi, on the fifth day of the fifth month of May every year, there is the custom of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, and drinking realgar wine, in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. This custom has been practiced for more than 2,000 years.

The story of Qu Yuan and Zongzi:

1. According to historical records, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 278 BC, Qu Yuan, a doctor and patriotic poet of Chu, heard the news that the Qin army had broken through the capital of Chu, and his heart was like a knife.

2. The people along the river have led boats to race to salvage, summoning spirits along the water, so as not to spoil Qu Yuan's corpse with fish and shrimp, and an old doctor brought a jar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that it was to stun the dragon and water beast with medicine, so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. In order to prevent the fish and shrimp from eroding Quzi, the people threw rice grains into the river one after another, hoping that the fish and shrimp would only eat these rice grains without damaging Quzi's body.

3. Then, according to ancient records, it was Qu Yuan who dreamed of the people who said that the rice grain was actually eaten by the dragon in the river when it was put into the river, and if it was wrapped in mugwort leaves and tied with a five-color rope, it could be saved from being swallowed by the dragon; This is why there were later zongzi. Slowly there is the custom of eating zongzi, on the fifth day of the fifth month of May every year, there is the custom of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, and drinking realgar wine, in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. This custom has been practiced for more than 2,000 years.

1. The Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, according to legend, Qu Yuan was broken by the Qin army in Yingcheng, Kyoto, Chu State, holding a big stone and jumping into the Miluo River near Changsha, Hunan, after the locals heard the news, in order to prevent the fish, insects, shrimps and crabs in the river from biting Qu Yuan's body, the rice balls wrapped in leaves, eggs and realgar wine were poured into the river, and later there was the custom of eating brown seeds during the Dragon Boat Festival.

2. The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Dragon Festival, the Zhengyang Festival, the Tianzhong Festival, etc., originated from the celestial worship and evolved from the dragon sacrifice in ancient times. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong Qisu soars to the south of the sky, which is the auspicious day for the dragon to fly to the sky, that is, as the fifth line of the "I Ching and Qiangua" said: "The flying dragon is 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. Its origin covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy, etc., 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 festival is rich in content. 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.

3. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival founded by the ancestors to worship the dragon ancestors and pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits. Because of the legend that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu during the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5, people later took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; There are also sayings commemorating Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui. In general, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors who chose the auspicious day of "Flying Dragon in the Sky" to worship the dragon ancestors, pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits, and inject the summer seasonal disease prevention and epidemic prevention fashion; The Dragon Boat Festival is regarded as the "evil moon and evil day" from the northern Central Plains, and the commemorative content of historical figures such as Qu Yuan is attached.

4. The Dragon Boat Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four traditional festivals in China. The Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. In May 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national holiday.

In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, making the Dragon Boat Festival the first festival in China to be included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.