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The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. According to the record of "Jing Chu Years Chronicle", because of the midsummer climbing, Shunyang is on the top, May is midsummer, and its first noon day is the day of ascending Shunyang good weather, so the fifth day of the fifth month of May is also called "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Midday Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Yulan Festival" and so on.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, and was originally a totem sacrifice festival for the tribes who worshiped the dragon totem in the ancient Baiyue region (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south of the Yangtze River). Later, because Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu (now Hubei) during the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on that day, the ruler took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan in order to establish a loyal and patriotic label; In some areas, there are also sayings commemorating Wu Zixu and Cao E.
The Dragon Boat Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals of the Han nationality in China.
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The fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year is an important traditional festival ——— the Dragon Boat Festival in China. The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Chongwu Festival, and the Chongwu Festival, and is also commonly known as the "May Festival". Regarding the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are many legends in folklore, and there are roughly the following ten kinds of things to summarize:
One says that the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival of dragons. Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival" researched that the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival held by the ancient Wuyue folk to hold totem sacrifices, and it is believed that the Dragon Boat Festival is actually a dragon festival.
The second theory believes that the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of Chu State. According to the "Continuation of Qi Harmonic Records" account: Qu Yuan died on the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month of the Miluo River, and the Chu people mourned.
The third theory is that according to the "Book of Rites", the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the orchid bathing in the Zhou Dynasty.
The fourth theory believes that according to Cai Yong's "Qin Exercises" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the sage Jie Zitui.
Five theories believe that the Song Dynasty Gao Cheng "The Origin of Things" published an article, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the Spring and Autumn Period, Yue Wang Goujian, so he practiced the navy on this day.
The sixth theory believes that Liang Zongyi's "Jingzhou Years Chronicles" stated that the Dragon Boat Festival was to welcome Wu Zixu, the "God of Tao". The Book of the Later Han Dynasty also wrote: Zhejiang Yuwu wished Cao Xu, and danced on the Cao'e River on the fifth day of the fifth month of May to welcome Wu Zixu.
Later, the people in Jiangsu and Zhejiang went up against the current every Dragon Boat Festival and held various ceremonies to mourn Wu Zixu.
The Seven Sayings believe that the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month is recorded in the Book of Taoism as the day of worship to the ancestors.
According to the book "Huiji Dictionary", the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Cao E, who died in search of his father and threw himself into the river.
Jiu said that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the summer solstice festival in the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods. At that time, on the day of midsummer, all things are prosperous, and on the summer solstice, the yin qi sprouts, and the fear of things is not good, so on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the five-color seal is used as the door decoration to punish the evil spirit.
There is a folk legend that believes that the Dragon Boat Festival originated in Shahu, Hubei, and there were four heroes who specialized in robbing the rich and helping the poor, and then they were killed by the local officers and soldiers who threw themselves into the river on the fifth day of the fifth month of May. The local people were very sad and set this day as the Dragon Boat Festival to mourn.
In these legends, the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Qu Yuan's patriotism, upright personality and the far-reaching influence of his poems, and the Qin and Han dynasties gradually spread throughout Shenzhou from Chu to this day.
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The patriotic poet Qu Yuan did not want to see his country Chu destroyed by Qin, and committed suicide on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar after Qin attacked and broke through the capital of Chu State. The people along the coast were grieved when they heard the news, and they went to salvage Qu or Zaoyuan's corpse, but they all returned empty-handed. In order to commemorate Qu Yuan, every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the people along the coast wrap rice with zongzi leaves and put them into the river to sacrifice Qu Yuan, and they are worried that the fish and shrimp in the water will grab the zongzi, so they tie a colorful rope on the zongzi, which is the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.
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The Dragon Boat Festival in China is also known by many other names, such as: Midday Festival, May Festival, Yulan Festival, Daughter's Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Day and so on. Although the names are different, the customs of people in different places are similar.
The main contents are: the daughter returns to her parents' home, hangs the statue of the clock, hangs calamus, wormwood, wears sachets, races dragon boats, competitions, hits, swings, paints realgar for children, drinks realgar wine, eats salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fresh fruits, etc.
Qu Zi Temple Town, Miluo City, Yueyang City.
Zigui County is the birthplace of Qu Yuan and one of the places with the deepest Dragon Boat Festival culture in China. In many places in China, there is only one Dragon Boat Festival, but Zigui has three Dragon Boat Festivals, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the first Dragon Boat Festival, the fifteenth day of May is the big Dragon Boat Festival, and the twenty-fifth day of May is the end of the Dragon Boat Festival. Every Dragon Boat Festival, Zigui people have to commemorate Qu Yuan in their own unique way, the Dragon Boat Festival poetry will chant Qu Yuan, race dragon boats to commemorate Qu Yuan, hold ceremonies to sacrifice Qu Yuan, in addition to hanging mugwort, inserting calamus, eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine, etc.
In addition to the custom of dragon boat racing in the Dragon Boat Festival in the mainland of the motherland, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan also began to hold dragon boat races. At that time, Jiang Yuanjun, the governor of Taiwan, hosted a friendly match in the Half Moon Pool of Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Now every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in Taiwan, dragon boat races are held.
In Hong Kong, Macao and other places, the custom of dragon boat racing during the Dragon Boat Festival is also very popular. In addition to the custom of dragon boat racing in the Dragon Boat Festival in the mainland of the motherland, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan also began to hold dragon boat races. At that time, Jiang Yuanjun, the governor of Taiwan, hosted a friendly match in the Half Moon Pool of Fahua Temple in Tainan City.
Now every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in Taiwan, dragon boat races are held. In Hong Kong, Macao and other places, the custom of dragon boat racing during the Dragon Boat Festival is also very popular.
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Qu Ping, the word Yuan, commonly known as Qu Yuan, during the Warring States Period, was a doctor of the Chu State, who was ostracized by others because of his upright personality and was exiled to Jiangnan. In the end, the Qin State unified the six countries, and the Chu State was destroyed, although he had the heart to repay the country, he was unable to return to the sky, so he had to die Mingzhi, and committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River on May 5 of the same year. Later generations put zongzi into the Miluo River on May 5 every year, which became a custom, which is called the Dragon Boat Festival.
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The disappointment of the Chu State and the despair of the powerless to change the country, Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, and the people admired him, so they wrapped rice in leaves and then threw them into the river, gave the fish to eat, and begged the fish not to eat Qu Yuan, and since then the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival has been passed down.
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In order to prevent Qu Yuan's body from being eaten by fish, the descendants used reed leaves to throw glutinous rice food into the river to feed the fish, which is the origin of zongzi.
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To commemorate Qu Yuan, Qu Yuan threw himself into the river and died, and people didn't want to eat his body.
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Qu Yuan died, and would rather die than become a prisoner, so he committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River, and the local people in order to prevent the dragon in the river from eating Qu Yuan, so they threw zongzi into the river, so there was the Dragon Boat Festival.
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Eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, and inserting mugwort are to commemorate Qu Yuan, and Yichang, Hubei Province is the most solemn.
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Race dragon boats, eat zongzi... It was originally to commemorate Qu Yuan.
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I'm just eating eggs and boiled garlic, as well as sachets and five-color threads.
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You said that the Dragon Boat Festival is not to commemorate Qu Yuan.
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