When did the Dragon Boat Festival start? How did the ancients celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

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.

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.

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

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.

Dragon boat rowing is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in ancient times, which has continued to this day; The tribute to the river is to commemorate Qu Yuan, remember the martyrs, and be indomitable; Hanging wormwood, on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, people will hang wormwood in front of the door, which has the meaning of keeping peace and well-being.

In ancient times, people generally raced dragon boats or ate zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, and they generally came over like this.

The following is how the ancient people passed the Hail Boat Festival in the Duanyan section: 1. Dragon boat racing is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. 2. Hanging Zhong Kui's statue, Zhong Kui catching the ghost of the burning omen, is the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.

3. Hiding from the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the rough sail heat is coming, the plague and poisonous insects breed, and May is called in ancient times"Evil Moon"。

The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival created to worship the dragon ancestor and pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits. Habits such as eating zongzi and racing dragon boats during the Dragon Boat Festival have been followed to this day.

The ancients would put down what they were doing and gather on both sides of the river to compete in the dragon boat race. In addition, there will also be a gathering to make zongzi and eat zongzi, which is particularly lively.

In ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival was cleared, eating zongzi and rowing dragon boats to commemorate Qu Yuan.

In ancient times, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, people cooked glutinous rice or steamed rice cakes and threw them into the river to feed the fish and hold the branches, in order to protect Qu Yuan's body who committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River. Later, it became a habit to eat zongzi on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year to express their respect and nostalgia for Qu Yuan.

1. 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.

2. 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 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: "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.

3. 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 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.

1. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival founded by the ancient ancestors to worship the dragon ancestor and pray for blessings and ward off evil things. Legend has it that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu during the Warring States Period, jumped over the Miluo River on May 5 to argue with himself, and later generations also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; There are also sayings commemorating Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, contains a profound and rich cultural connotation, in the inheritance and development of a variety of folk customs as a whole, due to different regional cultures and the existence of the Xi Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Tianzhong Festival, etc., originated from the natural celestial worship, evolved from the ancient era of dragon sacrifice.

During the Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer, the seven nights of the dragon fly in the middle of the south, and are in the most "middle" position of the year, that is, the fifth line of the "I Ching: Qiangua": "The flying dragon is in the sky". The Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day of "flying dragon in the sky", and the dragon and dragon boat culture has always run through the inheritance history of the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival that integrates worshipping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. Differences in vulgar content or details.

2. According to statistics, the name of the Dragon Boat Festival is the most common among all traditional festivals in China, reaching more than 20, such as the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Duanyang Festival, the Duanwu Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Wuxun, the Tianzhong Festival, the Summer Festival, the Ai Festival, the Shangri, the May Festival, the Calamus Festival, the Tianyi Festival, the Herbal Medicine Festival, the Yulan Festival, the Midday Festival, the Dila Festival, the Zhengyang Festival, the Dragon Day Festival, the Zongzi Festival, the Wuhuang Festival, the Poet's Day, the Hiding Boat Festival, the Zongzi Festival, the Duanli Festival, and the beginning of May.

May, May afternoon, etc.

The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of May, June 25, 2020.

2. The word "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the Western Jin Dynasty's "Records of the Wind and Soil": "The Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is also the fifth day of May, and it is customary to pay attention to this day, which is the same as the summer solstice." Duan, in ancient Chinese, has the meaning of beginning and beginning, and is called "Duanwu", which is also "Chuwu".

Shuowen Jiezi": "Duan, the question of the beginning of things", that is, the meaning of the end is the beginning, so the fifth day of the fifth month of May is called "Duanwu Festival". "Chronicles of the Yenching Years":

The fifth day of the first month is the single fifth day of May, and the transliteration of the word "end" is also covered. The ancients used to call the first few days of May by the end, "Guangji of the Year" said: "The dust people of Jingshi City, with the first day of the fifth month as the end one, the second day of the first month as the end two, and the number to five is called the end five."

3. "Pangu King Table" and "Three Lives Meeting" both contain that in ancient times, the ancient Yue people and emperors had invented the heavenly stems and earthly branches. The ancients used the heavenly stem and the earthly branch as the carrier, the heavenly stem carried the way of the sky, and the earthly branch carried the way of the earth, and set up the heavenly stem and the earthly branch to fit the fortune of heaven and earth. The invention of the Ganzhi marked the emergence of the primitive calendar.

According to the stem branch calendar, according to the order of the twelve earthly branches, the fifth month is the "noon moon", the noon moon and the noon day are called "heavy noon", and the noon day is "Yangchen", and the round shot is also called "Duanyang".