When is the Dragon Boat Festival in June 2021? Is Dragon Boat Festival the month of five poisonous animals? What are the five poisons?
The Gregorian calendar time of the Dragon Boat Festival is not fixed every year, and not everyone knows when the Dragon Boat Festival is in the new year. So, let’s take a look at what date in June is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2021? There are spring, summer, autumn and winter in a year, and the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the peak of summer. If you want to know more about the fifth month of the lunar calendar, please pay attention to Mr. Shui Mo’s special topic on the fifth month of the lunar calendar!When is the Dragon Boat Festival in June 2021?The lunar calendar time of the Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, but the solar calendar time of the Dragon Boat Festival is not fixed every year.The solar calendar date of the Dragon Boat Festival in 2021 is: Monday, June 14, 2021, Gemini (solar calendar) So, the Dragon Boat Festival in 2021 is on June 14th. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival created by our ancestors for worshiping the dragon ancestor, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet from the Chu State during the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5. Later, people also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. Is Dragon Boat Festival the month of five poisonous animals?Yes, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Five Poisonous Month.The main reason is that the ancients believed that the Dragon Boat Festival was the month of the five poisons , the weather was hot, plagues were prevalent, people were prone to illness, and they needed to drive away poisons and avoid evil spirits. Couples had to restrain their sexual life to maintain sufficient body resistance. During this festival, adults usually drink realgar wine and calamus wine, and children wear scented purses and pick herbs. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival can really be regarded as a traditional medicine and health festival. It is a festival for the people to fight against diseases and poisonous insects. It should continue to be carried forward and passed on. What are the five poisons?The "Five Poisons" in folk legends are five animals, namely snake, scorpion, centipede, gecko and toad . In fact, calling these five animals the "Five Poisons" was a misunderstanding of the ancients, because geckos are non-toxic but were considered highly poisonous.In order to prevent the five poisons, during the Dragon Boat Festival, some areas use realgar wine to draw the word "king" on children's foreheads to ward off evil spirits; some places also specially sew five-poison clothes and five-poison vests for children to wear for protection; some people also wrap five-colored silk threads around children's necks, wrists, and ankles in order to wish them a long life; adults also put tiger shoes and tiger hoods on children, which are said to avoid the harm of the "five poisons", and so on. |
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