The custom of traditional Dragon Boat Festival of Han nationality in China
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival of the Han nationality in China, also known as Duanyang Festival and Noon Festival, and it is also a festival to drive away the plague in memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet in China history. On this day, people will eat zongzi, race dragon boats, hang calamus, wormwood and mugwort leaves, smoke Atractylodes macrocephala and Angelica dahurica and drink realgar wine.
The new three-meter-high statue of Qu Yuan in Quzi Temple (198 1 shot). On the Miluo River in the northeast of Hunan, a grand dragon boat race is held every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan who drowned in Huai Sha two thousand years ago.
Qu Ping (about 339 BC ~ about 278 BC) was originally named Qu Yuan, but was also named after Regular Cloud. Han nationality, a native of Danyang (now Zigui, Hubei) at the end of the Warring States Period, is a descendant of Qu Xian, the son of Chu Wuwang Xiong Tong. Although Qu Yuan was loyal to Chu Huaiwang, he was repeatedly rejected. After the death of King Huai, Xiang Wang was exiled because he listened to slanderers, and finally died in the Miluo River.
Qu Yuan is one of the greatest romantic poets in China, and also the earliest known famous poet and world cultural celebrity in China. He initiated the style of "Chu Ci" and the tradition of "vanilla beauty". His representative works include Li Sao and Nine Songs.
In the history of our country, the saying that the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan has a history of 1500 years. According to legend, after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people immediately rowed for rescue, and all the way to Dongting Lake, but Qu Yuan's body was never seen. It was raining at that time, and the boats on the lake gathered at the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that it was to salvage the sage Dr. Qu, they went out in the rain and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to mourn, people rowed on rivers, and later it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. People were afraid that fish in the river would eat his body, so they went home and threw rice balls into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from ruining Qu Yuan's body. Later, eating zongzi became a custom. Source: Qili Women's Network
Of course, the Dragon Boat Festival is indispensable for the protagonist Zongzi. Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. Zongzi should be regarded as the traditional food with the deepest cultural accumulation so far in the history of China.
According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, millet was wrapped into horns by leaves of zinia latifolia, which was called "horny millet". Rice packed in bamboo tubes is sealed and baked, which is called "tube zongzi". In Jin Dynasty, Zongzi was officially designated as Dragon Boat Festival food. At this time, in addition to glutinous rice, jiaozi also added Alpinia oxyphylla, and the boiled jiaozi was called "Yizhi jiaozi". Rice is mixed with animal meat, chestnuts, red dates, red beans and so on. And there are more and more varieties. Zongzi is also used as a gift for communication.
In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the rice used for zongzi was "white as jade", with conical and diamond shapes. There is a record of "Da Tang Zongzi" in Japanese literature. There was a kind of "candied zongzi" in the Song Dynasty, that is, fruit was put into zongzi. The poet Su Dongpo has a poem "See Yangmei in Zongzi".
To this day, on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May, every household in China has to soak glutinous rice, wash the leaves of zongzi, and make zongzi, with more colors and varieties. Judging from the stuffing, there are many bags of Beijing jujube brown in the north; There are many kinds of fillings in the south, such as bean paste, fresh meat, eight treasures, ham, egg yolk and so on. The custom of eating zongzi has been popular in China for thousands of years and spread to South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.
The fifth day of May in the summer calendar is the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional folk festival in China. On this day, many places with rivers hold dragon boat races, and every family eats zongzi to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Brown. Eating palm seed on Dragon Boat Festival has been circulating in China for more than two thousand years. It is said that after Qu Yuan's death, people threw zongzi into the river to feed Xiaolong to prevent him from eating Qu Yuan's body. The other is to throw zongzi into the river as a sacrifice to Qu Yuan and wrap it with bamboo leaves to avoid being swallowed by fish and shrimp. Xinhua News Agency reporter Wang (photo taken at 1982)
On June 22, 2004, a vendor in Guiyang sold wormwood and iris in a small street. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. In the south of China, besides eating zongzi and racing dragon boats, every household has the custom of hanging wormwood and iris at home during festivals. On May 28th, 2006, a dragon boat racer walked past the installed dragon boat with paddles. The fifth day of May is the traditional festival of the Chinese nation-Dragon Boat Festival. People all over the country celebrate this traditional festival by holding dragon boat races and eating zongzi. On May 3 1, the 2nd Yichang Sports Meeting and China Zigui Dragon Boat Festival opened in Zigui County, Yichang City, Hubei Province, Qu Yuan's hometown.
On June 1 1, Yan, a folk artist from Tancheng County, Shandong Province, sorted out his own sewing sachets and prepared to sell them in the market. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, local folk artists are busy making various sachets with colored thread and cloth to welcome the festival.
Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China, and it also has great influence in some countries in East and Southeast Asia. Many countries, such as South Korea, Japan, Vietnam and Singapore, will hold various activities on May 5th to celebrate this festival.
Wash your hair with calamus water during the Dragon Boat Festival.
2010 June 16, women wearing hanbok washed their hair with calamus water in a park in Seoul, South Korea. This is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in China, the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China. In neighboring Korea, there is also the custom of Dragon Boat Festival. Koreans call the Dragon Boat Festival "going to Japan", which means the day of God. In the past, every household in Korea would put white mugwort cakes with the fragrance of wormwood and glutinous rice on the Dragon Boat Festival, wash their hair with calamus soup for good luck and drink calamus water to ward off evil spirits. People will also wear traditional costumes to participate in sacrifices, performances and sports meetings, and watch swings and wrestling competitions.
On June 13, students from the First Experimental Primary School in Chengxiang District, Putian, Fujian Province showed two "tiger eggs" with their wishes written on them. On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, the first experimental primary school in Chengxiang District, Putian City, Fujian Province held the traditional custom of "hitting tiger eggs". Students wrote down their wishes on duck eggs cooked with five herbs, and then collided with each other to pray for safer, healthier and smarter future.
On the Miluo River in the northeast of Hunan, a grand dragon boat race is held every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan who drowned in Huai Sha two thousand years ago.
Sao altar is located on the right side of Quzi Temple. The altar site is a hill shaped like a lion, squatting by the river (photo taken at 198 1). According to legend, Qu Yuan's representative works Li Sao and Nine Songs were written here.
On June 4th, 2008, a child watched the sale of jiaozi in front of a shop booth. The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, and the streets and alleys of Shanghai are already filled with a strong festive atmosphere. Many merchants sell good jiaozi and sachet ornaments.
On June 15, children dressed in school uniforms threw zongzi at East Lake in Wuhan to offer sacrifices to Qu Yuan. On the same day, Wuhan held a Dragon Boat Festival sacrifice to Qu Yuan in Yin Hangting, Qu Yuan, East Lake. This sacrificial activity was carried out by the students of the Chinese Studies Class of Wuhan University in accordance with ancient rituals and traditional sacrificial ceremonies.
Location of Quyuan Temple (198 1 shooting). On the Miluo River in the northeast of Hunan, a grand dragon boat race is held every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan who drowned in Huai Sha two thousand years ago. Shortly after Qu Yuan's death, local residents set up this shrine on the Miluo River and moved it to Yuren Mountain, which is 1745 km west of Miluo County.
On June 9, 2007, a citizen hung wormwood on his door in Shahe Community, Zunyi City, Guizhou Province. On that day, as a traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, many citizens in Zunyi, Guizhou bought wormwood from the market and hung it at their doorsteps.
The dragon boat race was held in the countryside of Longhai County, Fujian Province. (Photographed at 1985) Dragon boat racing is also a custom with a long history. Some said that it was from saving the patriotic poet Qu Yuan from throwing himself into the river in a spaceship, and others said that he was afraid that the dragon would hurt Qu Yuan's body. People beat drums and gongs to drive dragons.
1961June 17 was held on the afternoon of the Pearl River. Members of Xinzhou People's Commune on the outskirts of Guangzhou, with a happy mood, talked on the dragon boat.
The Stone Statue of Qu Yuan in qu yuan memorial hall in zigui county, Zigui County, Hubei Province. (Photographed at 1988) The stone statue is 103 cm high and weighs several hundred Jin. It was carved by local people in Jiajing 16 (A.D. 1537) in Ming Dynasty, and it is the earliest preserved stone statue of Qu Yuan in China.
Penguins also eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival. On June 8, penguins were attracted by "fish zongzi" at the East Lake Ocean World in Wuhan. This is the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China. The staff of Wuhan East Lake Ocean World prepared a special food for penguins-"Fish Zongzi".