Will it rain on Dragon Boat Festival in 2019? Are there any signs of rain on Dragon Boat Festival?
Introduction: The Dragon Boat Festival period has already entered the summer, and the weather is also changing a lot. So will it rain on the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019? Are there any signs of rain on the Dragon Boat Festival? The fifth month of the lunar calendar is midsummer. The lotus breeze delivers fragrance, the bamboo dew drops make clear sounds, and the scenery is different from any other season. Please continue to pay attention to Mr. Shui Mo's website for more content related to the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 2019!Will it rain on Dragon Boat Festival in 2019? Are there any signs of rain on Dragon Boat Festival?The Dragon Boat Festival is literally also known as "Duanwu", "Double Fifth" and "Double Fifth". "Duan" means beginning or start in ancient Chinese, so "Duanwu" is the same as "Chuwu".The Dragon Boat Festival period has entered the rainy season. It is normal to rain. It is not good to have rain for many days because it will affect the maturity of wheat. Appropriate rainfall is very good and is conducive to autumn sowing. In fact, this is a proverb in the south of the Yangtze River, which means that if it is sunny on the Dragon Boat Festival in May but it does not rain (foreshadowing a drought year), there will be less rain throughout the year, and the rice will not produce seeds that year, or even no harvest at all. Finally it rotted in the field. The Dragon Boat Festival rain is an old folk divination custom. It is believed that if it rains on the Dragon Boat Festival, it is unlucky; otherwise, it is lucky. Historical records show that this belief already existed in the Song Dynasty. Chen Yuanliang's Sui Shi Guang Ji quoted from Ti Yao Lu: "On the fifth day of May, people dry medicine in the sun, and there will be no disasters in the year. If it rains, ghosts will dry medicine in the sun, and many people will get sick. This is a proverb in Fujian." Xu Yueqing's note to Ci Yun Shu Ren Li Shizhou Fu's Dragon Boat Festival said: "People in Linchuan say that if it rains on the Dragon Boat Festival, ghosts will be prosperous and people will suffer disasters. Zhao Huaiyu of the Qing Dynasty also quoted the proverb "No rain on the Dragon Boat Festival means a good harvest." Are there any differences in the Dragon Boat Festival across the country?Hunan ProvinceDuring the Dragon Boat Festival in You County, wealthy pregnant women's families use flower coins, wine and food, while poor families prepare chicken and wine, and use bamboo to clamp paper money to offer them in front of the dragon head of the dragon boat to pray for a safe delivery. The Yuezhou Prefecture held a dragon boat race to ward off disasters and get rid of diseases. It is also called "sending away the plague" by floating it on the water with straw boats. Guangdong Province On the Dragon Boat Festival at noon in Conghua County, people wash their hands and eyes with water from burning talismans and then splash it on the road, which is called "sending away disasters." During the Dragon Boat Festival in Xinxing County, people from nearby temples play music to welcome the deity statues out for a procession. The wizard also uses magic water and talismans to drive away evil spirits. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Shicheng County, children fly kites, which is called "releasing disasters". Hainan Province During the Dragon Boat Festival, various places in Hainan hold dragon boat races and other activities just like in the Central Plains. In Ding'an, the best-preserved ancient county city wall today, there are still two stone steps with two bright, slender and high-spirited dragon boats stacked on them inside the 500-year-old Ming Chenghua ancient city gate. During the Dragon Boat Festival, our ancestors on the island would carry their dragon boats, rush to the river, and sweat profusely in the race on the Nandu River... History has flowed from the ancient Dragon Boat Festivals to the present day. Wenchang, known as the "Coconut Town", is the ancestral home of the Song Dynasty and is located by the sea and the river. Since ancient times, local coastal and riverside residents have held dragon boat racing activities during the Dragon Boat Festival to pray for blessings and peace. In addition to dragon boat racing, eating rice dumplings, and hanging calamus and mugwort, which are common to the mainland, Hainan also has an activity that is well known to island residents: washing in dragon water and taking herbal baths. Fujian Province According to the old custom of the Dragon Boat Festival in Fuzhou, the daughter-in-law presents funeral clothes, shoes and socks, rice dumplings and fans to her parents-in-law. Jianyang County regards the fifth day as the day for the Medicine King to dry his medicine bags, and everyone makes sauce on this day. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Shanghang County, people use small boats tied with reeds to make dragon shapes and play on the waterside, which is called dragon boat racing. After the Dragon Boat Festival race in Xianyou County, paper was presented to Huxiaotan to commemorate the soldiers of Qi Jiguang who drowned here in the year of Jiajing. Before the Dragon Boat Festival in Shaowu Prefecture, women use crimson gauze to make bags to hold talismans. Also, square ornaments were made with five-colored velvet, connected with colored threads, and tied to the hairpins. Young girls would have it hung on their backs and it was called "Dou Niang". Hebei Province People in Beijing avoid drawing water from wells on the Dragon Boat Festival. Instead, they draw water from wells before the festival. It is said that this is to avoid well poison. Street vendors also sell cherries and mulberries during the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that if you eat cherries and mulberries during the Dragon Boat Festival, you will not accidentally eat flies throughout the year. Each food shop sells "Five Poison Cakes", which are cakes decorated with patterns of five poisonous insects. In Luan County, engaged couples give each other gifts on the Dragon Boat Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhao County, local officials would hold a gathering in the south of the city and invite the scholars and officials in the city to feast and compose poetry, which was called "Treading on the Willows". Shandong Province In Zouping County, during the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone needs to drink a glass of wine when they get up early. It is said that this can ward off evil spirits. In Rizhao, children are given seven-colored threads to wear during the Dragon Boat Festival. They are required to wear the thread until the first rain after the festival, at which time they are untied and thrown into the rain. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Linqing County, boys under the age of seven wear amulets (necklaces made of wheat straw) and girls wear pomegranate flowers. They also have to wear yellow cloth shoes made by their mothers with five poisonous insects painted on the uppers with a brush. It means to kill five poisonous insects by using Qu Yuan's ink. Jimo washes its face with dew on the morning of Dragon Boat Festival. Shanxi Province During the Dragon Boat Festival in Xiezhou, men and women wear mugwort leaves, which is said to "remove diseases", while children tie hundreds of ropes around their necks, which is said to be "binding a dragon for Qu Yuan." During the Dragon Boat Festival in Xizhou, each village offers sacrifice to the Dragon King and hangs paper in the fields. The Dragon Boat Festival in Huairen County is also known as "Zhumen". During the Dragon Boat Festival in Dingxiang County, students are required to give gifts to their teachers. The people of Lu'an Prefecture steamed balls made of wheat flour, called "baituan", and gave them as gifts to each other together with rice dumplings. Shaanxi Province During the Dragon Boat Festival in Xing'an Prefecture, local officials lead their subordinates to watch the dragon boat race, which is called "stepping on stones". During the Dragon Boat Festival in Xingping County, people sew small rice dumplings with silk and then sew a small doll underneath, which is called "playing with dolls." During the Dragon Boat Festival in Tongguan County, people stick cattail, mugwort and paper cows on their doors, which is called "warding off diseases." Zhejiang Province The students in the rural schools of Tonglu County give gifts to their teachers on the Dragon Boat Festival, which are called "yisi". Doctors collect herbs at noon. It is said that the star of medicine appears in the sky on this day. Jiangxi Province People in Jianchang Prefecture bathe in water made from hundreds of herbs on the Mid-Autumn Festival to prevent scabies. People in Xinchang County drink it mixed with realgar and cinnabar wine, which is called "opening the eyes." The new year of 2019 has already begun. Will you be able to find your soulmate this year? Is your love luck good? Welcome to click on the "Premium Calculation" below to accurately calculate your love pattern. I wish you can find the right soulmate soon! |
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