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Dragon Boat Festival customs you don't understand

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I wish all textile people a good luck in the Dragon Boat Festival!


On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it is a traditional Chinese folk festival, the Dragon Boat Festival. It is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation, also known as Duan Wu and Duan Yang. Due to differences in regions, ethnic groups and legends, the Dragon Boat Festival in the north and south has many different customs.


Eating hazelnuts


The ancient scorpion is called "Corner", and Qu Yuan, who is a sacrifice to the river, is only a legend. The scorpion that is really written in the text is found in the "Tour of the Wind" at Jin Zhou; the long-lived scorpion is the honey scorpion of Xi'an, which is contained in Tang Wei Juyuan. 》. The difference between eating hazelnuts in the north and south of China is reflected in the fact that the south eats salty rice and the north eats sweet rice.


The Chinese Children's Day:


Yao: Yao people use glutinous rice with bacon strips, mung beans, and "pillows";


She minority:She minority, the folks called the horns. Use eucalyptus leaves to pack glutinous rice, bundle with dragon grass, and cook ash alkaline water;


Dai nationality:Dai nationality also eat scorpions during the Dragon Boat Festival and have to go through the "Zizi Festival." It is said that the "Zizi Festival" is to commemorate a pair of young men and women who are sympathetic because their marriage is opposed by their parents;


Maonan nationality:Their Dragon Boat Festival is called the "medicine festival." Use herbs such as wormwood, calamus, and turmeric to drink water, or use these herbs as a stuffing bag. The folks believe that eating this stuffing in the Dragon Boat Festival can detoxify and get sick.



Dragon Boat Festival Friends


Calamus, Ai and garlic are known as "three friends in the Dragon Boat Festival." During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Dragon Boat Festival was also known as the "Mu Lan Festival", and Jing Chuyi had the custom of Cai Ai.


In ancient times, people lacked scientific concepts and mistakenly thought that diseases were caused by ghosts and evils. Therefore, on the Dragon Boat Festival, people used the calamus as a sword, used Ai as a whip, and used garlic as a hammer. They were also called "three kinds of weapons." , think that you can retreat snakes, insects, germs, and remove the demon.


In the Jiangnan area, some customs are drinking yuppie wine during the Dragon Boat Festival, and its medicinal efficacy is more direct. Usually before the festival, the calamus is chopped, accompanied by realgar, immersed in wine, and can be drunk at the festival.



 Exorcism of the Dragon Boat Festival


In addition to using the "dragon boat friends" of Ai, calamus and garlic to drive ghosts, there is also an important method of exorcism, which is to evade evil spirits in the room. The more common spells are: "May 5th, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the red tongue and the white tongue are eliminated."


In addition, there are also hangover mirrors, hanging bells and owls, wormwood on the ears, calamus on the head, nocturnal wine on the children's forehead, drinking realgar wine, wearing the bells and five poisonous copper coins, wearing a five-drug apron and other ghost-swapping customs.



Drinking realgar wine:


In the Jiangnan Folk Dragon Boat Festival in China, there is a custom of eating “five yellow” (astragalus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar wine). The folks believe that snakes and other poisonous insects can be cracked by realgar wine. The Dragon Boat Festival can drink evil spirits and detoxification, but modern science proves that realgar is poisonous.



Wear five-color silk thread:


In Chinese traditional culture, the five colors of green, red, white, black and yellow that symbolize the five elements and five elements are regarded as auspicious colors. On the Dragon Boat Festival, the children should wear a five-color silk thread on their wrists and ankles to avoid disasters and to be safe.



Wear perfumed medicine bags:


Chen Dianzhen’s "Year of the Year" quoted "Year of the Miscellaneous Notes" as a kind of "end five to make a white color like a sac, with a color line, and make a flower shape." and another kind of "蚌粉铃" : "The end of the five days to pick up the powder in the sputum, adorned with cotton, if the number of beads. Let the children bring sweat to also."


These carry-on bags have changed their contents from sweat-absorbent powder, exorcism spirits, copper coins, and royal yellow powder of worms to spice-filled sachets, which have become increasingly sophisticated and become unique to the Dragon Boat Festival. Art.


Aihu and Jianren:


Both of them are exorcism and rumors worn by women in the old Dragon Boat Festival. They also serve as decorations, which seem to have the effect of exorcising evils.





Dragon Boat Festival game


The Dragon Boat Festival game of the northern people - shooting willows, killing:


The shooting will be to cut off the upper part of the trunk of the willow, and make it white, as the target, and then the competitors will shoot the white spot.


Killing, also known as playing polo, is riding on the horse, playing with the stick, the ancient name is killed.


In addition, there are also the poems of Tengliu and the customs of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.


Dragon Boat Race:


Dragon boat racing is common in the south of China. There are also dragon and boat customs in cities close to rivers and lakes in the north, and most of them are in the form of dragon boat dragon boat. There are dragon boats and dragon boats in the Dragon Boat Festival. Fengzhou originates from the ancient Wuzhou and the boat, and some places also have dragon and phoenix boats.


In addition, during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are activities such as circus, duck robbing, and bell cricket.



Dodging the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival


To avoid the Dragon Boat Festival is the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, refers to the newly married or married women to go home. Referred to as "hidden", also known as "hidden five." In May and May 5th, it is a bad month and a bad day. Everything needs to be avoided, because there are people who go home to hide the Dragon Boat Festival.


The Dragon Boat Festival rain, when the folk ages accounted for customs. It is common to believe that the Dragon Boat Festival is raining, not good; This kind of customary letter already existed in the Song Dynasty.




Other food for the Dragon Boat Festival


 During the Dragon Boat Festival in China's Jianghan Plain, it is necessary to eat jaundice. Astragalus is also known as squid and long fish.


Many areas of our country have the custom of eating eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. Tea eggs, salted eggs, and garlic eggs are all flavors of the Dragon Boat Festival.


The fragrant rice cake is a representative food for the Korean people of Yanbian in Jilin Province to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.


In Jinjiang District of Fujian Province, every household in the Dragon Boat Festival has to eat “fried heap”, which is made with flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder and other ingredients.




Health customs of the Dragon Boat Festival


Picking medicine is one of the ancient Dragon Boat Festivals. Because of the maturity of the stems and leaves of the herbs before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, the drug is good, and this custom was formed on this day.


Dragon Boat Festival Lan Lan Tang is an ancient custom recorded in "Da Dai Li". At that time, Lan was not the current orchid, but the Perrin of the Compositae. It had aroma and could be bathed in water. Later, it was generally fried in a pot, ai and other vanilla bath.


In some areas in the north, I like to pick up tender leaves in the Dragon Boat Festival and steam the leaves of wild vegetables to make tea. In the Chaozhou area of Guangdong, people go to the suburbs to collect herbs and drink herbal tea.



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