The Dragon Boat FestivalThe history and folk customs do you know?

Again to the palm leaf fragrance families prepare the glutinous rice, red jujube and bean paste, early WeiYe, bamboo, water chestnut, this is the taste of the people of the north, southerners prefer bacon (meat) rice dumplings, dragon boat race around also in busy preparation.

You know, more Chinese children to commemorate the flexor doctor and eat rice dumplings on lunar may fifth day, dragon boat racing.And around other legends about the Dragon Boat Festival and folk you can clear?Speaking, the colorful folk tradition in this Dragon Boat Festival, it has the feeling of dazzling, dizzying.Light about the nickname, DuanYangJie 5, afternoon day festival, may festival, festival, ai festival, terminal five, ChongWu, weighs five, midday, ten several summer festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, etc.Why is called "dragon boat"?The word "end" has the meaning of "initial", so "terminal five" is "fifth".And according to the calendar in May is "noon", so "terminal five" has gradually evolved into "dragon boat"."At the age of yanjing record" records: "fifth for May 5, to cover the words of the sound."

As to the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, and there are several different, in addition to the most well known is to commemorate qu yuan Gao Yi, and memory of the spring and autumn when the star wu zixu, mule Cao E, said the summer solstice, the evil of the eastern han dynasty, taboo and so on several kinds of claims.When in tai zong deloitte was alarmed by the jingchu age ", stated: "the boatrace May 5, common for qu yuan Mimi Luo Ri, hurt by his death, reason and life boat to min...Handan chun Cao E monuments, cloud, May 5, when meet WuJun...And soochow's customs, in a professional, none QuPing also."That dragon boat boatrace is to meet the dongwu area has been people at that time as a river god wu zixu, has nothing to do with qu yuan.While Cao E is the eastern han dynasty shangyu people, (this story comes from the eastern han dynasty Cao E tablet), Cao Fu drowned in, a few daysThe bodyWhen Cao E just 14 years old, and wailing along the river day and night.After 17 days, jiang also on May 5 shots, five days after the father corpse.

In the pre-qin period, is generally believed that in May is a poison month, five day is the evil day, according to legend this day XieNing power, ruling out.Fifth, to banish the plague, town known to ward off bad luck, bless peace, calamus, folium artemisiae argyi, realgar in the "enter".Realgar name e.g., during the Dragon Boat Festival with realgar daub, my forehead custom cloud can ward off the vermin.Typical method is to use realgar wine in pediatric forehead painting "king" word, a borrow realgar to abolish poison, second borrow the tigers (" king "tiger forehead lines, and the tiger is the king of beasts, due to generation of tiger) in the town of evil.Since many parts of the south still kept this custom.Speaking of the realgar wine, if it is za northerners, also just heard from the "white snake", as a kind of traditional Chinese medicine herbs, realgar can be used as an antidote, insecticides.So the ancients thought that realgar can hold on to the snake, scorpion, hundreds of "goodness can kill the poison, and the evil, method of poison, people, into the forest and the tiger v, sichuan water and avoid the poison".But the doctor of traditional Chinese medicine and folk experts believe that the Dragon Boat Festival custom of drinking realgar wine should disdain, because the arsenic in realgar wine, is the main element of the arsenic.

No matter what holiday,The childChildren are the happiest, belong to their program is also the most, such as the Dragon Boat Festival when wearing a "long life lock", which is also called the lives, life-saving wire strands, live line, longevity, nickname "hundred", "the monarch salt", "colorful strand", etc., have different name, the same shape and function.The customs during the Dragon Boat Festival with five evanescent hues knot rope, or hung on the door first, or wear children's neck, or the department of pediatric arm, or hang in the place such as bed nets, cradle, in addition to common "to avoid disaster, bless peace, prolong life prolonging illness.Shape of this kind of festival is generally five: simple the five-color silk thread into a rope, a partnership in arms;In the colorful rope compose ACTS the role of jinxi decorations, hang in the neck;Colorful rope ChengFangSheng, act the role ofing to his chest;Colorful rope knot of people wear;With multicolored silk embroidery painting stars and birds and animals, such as placing an elder.The common began in the han dynasty.Later turned down, until nearly, modern.

Dragon boat day bathing LanShang is "big Dai Li" recorded in the ancient customs.But not the text of the orchid orchid, but compositae perrin, have fragrance, can cook the water bath.Later is generally Fried pu, wormwood herb, etcTake a shower.In guangdong, with ai, pu, impatiens, magnolia flowers and plants;In hunan, guangxi and other places, with cypress leaf, high winds, ai, such as pu, peach leaf boil potion to bath.Both men and women, old or young, all his family were washed, the common surviving so far, are said to cure skin diseases, to evil.

The Dragon Boat Festival is at the door hangs ay tsao, calamus (PuJian) or pomegranate, garlic, hu will usually ai, banyan, calamus tied with red paper into a bundle, then insert or hanging on the door.Because five red flag is day, dispels the ominous sword, because the season of growth and appearance are regarded as "hundreds of Yin qi" feeling, leaf blade type, inserted in the door can ward off evil spirits.So the alchemist who called it "water sword", later, the custom is extended to "PuJian" could be thousands of evil.Gu Tieqing in qing dynasty in the qing jia recorded "there is a record" cut pu as the sword, cut loose for a whip, deputy to peach terrier garlic, hanging in the bed, but at the ghost ".And jin dynasty "and" has "tiger for ai form, or cut the ribbon for the tigers, post in folium artemisiae argyi, my wife rushed to cut it.Later more calamus, or human, or XiaoJian, called PuJian, to exorcize ghost ".

Moxa and calamus are refreshing bactericidal effect, folium artemisiae argyi to phlegm, diminishing inflammation, scattered sp;And flooding wind evil, diuresis, orris root and the effect of analgesia, tsao on behalf of buford, in ancient times has been the medicinal plants, acupuncture and moxibustion, inside is with wormwood as main ingredients, on acupuncture points for burning to cure diseases.About sagebrush could exorcism legend spread already a long time, the main is that it has the function of the medicine and come, as recorded in jingchu age, "chicken is not sound, adopt ai like human form, took that take charge to moxibustion disease, test.Japanese ai for humanoid, hanging on the door, can rid gas."