The symbolic meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil spirits

1. Five-color silk thread (five-color rope, five-color silk, five-color silk).

2. In traditional Chinese culture, the five colors that symbolize the five elements are blue, red, white, black and yellow, which are regarded as auspicious colors.

3. The Dragon Boat Festival is tied with five-color silk threads, which was a very popular custom. Passed on to later generations, that is, developed into many kinds of beautiful ornaments such as longevity, longevity locks, sachets, etc., staring at the production is becoming more and more refined, and success or failure is blocked by the unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.

4. The five-color silk threads on the children's bodies were tied from May 5 until the birthday of the "Seven Niang Ma" of Chahu Qixi Festival, and they were untied and burned together with the golden tree.

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What is the main way to ward off evil spirits in the south of the Dragon Boat Festival

Eat five yellow and five poisonous cakes.

In addition to eating zongzi, eating five yellow, five poison cakes is also an important food custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, in Zhejiang, people put yellow food, namely yellow croaker, yellow eel, cucumber, salted duck egg yolk, realgar wine, mixed together to eat, think that you can use the power of the Dragon Boat Festival solar terms, inhibit bad luck, and enhance their energy.

The "five poisons" refer to scorpions, centipedes, spiders, toads, and poisonous snakes. The Five Poison Cake is made by carving a five-mold nuclear poison insect pattern and stamping it on the rose cake. Eating the five poisonous cakes means eating (eliminating) all poisonous insects, so that they no longer hurt people, and can prevent villains from making trouble.

Hang wormwood. Wormwood is still used in traditional Chinese medicine today, in fact, in ancient times, wormwood was a vanilla, and together with orchid grass (orchid grass in ancient books is not an orchid) and other scented grasses, it is regarded as having the ability to drive away evil people with incense. The wormwood planted by everyone on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival can be placed in a cool and ventilated place at home to let it dry naturally.

Tradition believes that this kind of wormwood soaked in water can relieve gastrointestinal discomfort, such as boiling water and bathing, it can be ****, can pull out the evil spirit.

Stick the statue of Zhong Kui. For Zhong Kui's image, he must have become a household name. It is said that Zhong Kui was named the generalissimo of the flat ghost by the king of Hades, and in the people, it is the auspicious meaning of driving away the evil man in the town.

Therefore, before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, there will be many people who hang the portrait of Zhong Kui in the shape of a hungry elephant, or the heavenly master talisman to dispel the evil spirit at home.

Throw the disaster. Please use red paper to cut the gourd or snake, scorpion, centipede, toad, gecko five poisonous patterns, with white paper as the lining, from the beginning of the fifth lunar month on the lintel, or with hard paper folded into the shape of zongzi, wrapped on the five-color silk thread to wear on the body, to the fifth day of the fifth day of the fifth month, the five-color paper zongzi limbs and paper-cut gourd together with the door to throw out, can dispel the evil spirit to bring you good luck.

Eat zongzi. Zongzi, also known as horn millet. In the beginning, it was named after the shape of a cow's horn made by wrapping corn in a mushroom leaf.

Among them, mushroom leaves are born in water and belong to "yin". Millet rice, called "Valley of Fire", has the nature of yang fire. Therefore, the combination of these two zongzi naturally has the meaning of "yin and yang combined", symbolizing people's good wishes for the harmony of yin and yang.

Although the mushroom leaves are now replaced by basket leaves and reed leaves, the charm of the harmony of yin and yang has not diminished at all.