What is the Dragon Boat Festival also called? Why do we put mugwort on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival?
Introduction: The Dragon Boat Festival is an important traditional festival, and there are many customs related to the Dragon Boat Festival, inserting mugwort is one of them. So what is the Dragon Boat Festival called, and why do we put mugwort on doors during the Dragon Boat Festival? The "Book of Songs" records that "cicadas sing in May". Cicadas are the chirping cicadas. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, summer cicadas sing, so it is called "singing cicadas". If you want to know about the auspiciousness and inauspiciousness of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 2019, come and have a look at Mr. Shui Mo.What is the Dragon Boat Festival also called?Dragon Boat Festival is also known as Zongzi FestivalEating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival has become a specific festival custom. People from both the south and the north eat rice dumplings on this day. According to historical records, rice dumplings appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. In the Jin Dynasty, rice dumplings were officially designated as food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the "Zongzi Festival". In addition, when the ancients ate zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a game in which they compared the length of the zongzi leaves they untied, and the tallest one won, so it is also known as the "Zongzi Untying Festival." Dragon Boat Festival is also known as: Duan Yang Festival There are several theories as to why the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Duan Yang Festival. One of them is that the ancients believed that five was a yang number, so it is also called the Duan Yang Festival. Another theory comes from "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji". According to the records, because people climb high places in midsummer when the sun is high, May is midsummer, and its first noon is the day when the weather is good for climbing high places, so the fifth day of May is called "Dragon Boat Festival". In addition, according to the ancients' use of the twelve Earthly Branches to correspond to the months, "Wu" belongs to the twelve Earthly Branches, and the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the Wu month, and Wu has the same pronunciation as five. The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of May every year, which means that five and five overlap each other, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the "Double Fifth Festival", and in some places it is also called the "May Festival". Dragon Boat Festival is also known as Dragon Boat Festival This is the viewpoint put forward by the famous scholar Wen Yiduo in "A Study of the Dragon Boat Festival". He believed that four or five thousand years ago, the Wu and Yue ethnic groups worshipped the dragon as their totem and considered themselves to be the descendants of the dragon. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival for the Wu and Yue ethnic groups to worship the dragon totem, and dragon boat racing was a semi-religious, semi-entertainment program in the ceremony. That is to say, the Dragon Festival, also known as the Dragon Son Festival, is not another name for the Dragon Boat Festival, but the real name of the Dragon Boat Festival. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival comes from the dragon totem worship day of ethnic minorities. Dragon boat racing is not to commemorate Qu Yuan, but an activity that existed long before Qu Yuan. This view is now widely accepted by the academic community. Dragon Boat Festival is also known as Girls' Day The reason why the Dragon Boat Festival is called Daughters' Day is said to be to commemorate the outstanding female politician Wu Zetian. Legend has it that her mother met a golden dragon by the river on the Dragon Boat Festival, and then became pregnant and gave birth to her. In order to commemorate this outstanding woman who was born on this day, every Dragon Boat Festival they would sail to the river, sing and dance, and pray for the golden dragon to reappear, to get pregnant again, and to give birth to more female heroes who would make women all over the world proud. This custom has been passed down to this day, and it is the colorful and fascinating "Guangyuan Daughter's Festival". Dragon Boat Festival is also known as: Yulan Festival According to Liang Zongxiang's "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji", "May 5th is called the Orchid Bathing Festival." Because the Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, a season when skin diseases are prevalent, the ancients attached great importance to bathing on May 5th during the Dragon Boat Festival. The ancients would go to the mountains to pick orchids, go home to cook soup, and use it for washing their bodies. Some people like to put orchid, scutellaria, baicalensis, galangal, and nard, etc. in sachets and wear them on their chest to ward off evil spirits and insects. Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Acorus Festival. The ancients believed that May was a poisonous month and the fifth day was a poisonous day. On the Dragon Boat Festival, the five poisonous creatures come out, namely snakes, centipedes, scorpions, lizards and toads. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is mostly a ritual of warding off evil and poison, such as hanging calamus on the door, inserting mugwort, drinking realgar wine, etc., so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the "Calamus Festival." Why do we put mugwort on the door during the Dragon Boat Festival?The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. During the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao's rebel army attacked the Central Plains during the Dragon Boat Festival. Local officials then spread the word: "Huang Chao is waving his sword across the mountain, and everyone will be beheaded!" and mobilized the people to flee their homes, which was to "escape Huang Chao." In reality, the purpose was to prevent the rebels from coming into contact with the people, so as to curb their continued expansion.In a family in the Central Plains, all the men were away, leaving only a woman and two children at home, one of whom was her biological child and the other was the orphan of her sister-in-law. Her own child could just walk, and her sister-in-law's orphan was one year older than her own child. The woman fled alone with her two children, carrying her sister-in-law's orphan on her back, but let her own child, who was just able to walk, walk, but fell behind. Not far away, they met a man in yellow clothes, who asked: "Sister-in-law, why don't you let the older children walk, but let the younger children walk?" The woman told her the truth. The man in yellow clothes was very moved and said: "You performed loyal and righteous deeds in times of danger, and have broken Huang Chao's sword. Huang Chao can no longer take your head. In fact, you only need to stick mugwort at the door of your house to show that your family is a loyal and righteous family, and Huang Chao will not be able to do anything to you." After he finished speaking, he suddenly disappeared. The woman thought it was the advice of an immortal, so she went home and did as she was told, and told the refugees along the way that sticking mugwort would help break Huang Chao's sword. Therefore, the woman was kind and did many good deeds, so many people believed her and followed her advice. They planted mugwort at their doorsteps and did not have to "go to Huang Chao" and could celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival at home. Sure enough, when the rebel army passed through the border, they saw people planting mugwort in their homes and no one disturbed them. The doctors accompanying the army even treated the people and asked about their illnesses. The story of the woman encountering the immortal and gaining guidance spread everywhere. Ordinary people no longer "went to Huang Chao's place" but instead planted mugwort to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival and imitated the woman's loyalty and righteousness. In fact, the man in yellow was the vanguard strategist of Huang Chao's rebel army and was highly skilled in martial arts. Wherever the rebel army went, there were uninhabited villages. The rebel army had no support and became an isolated army. The counselor knew something was fishy, so he disguised himself as plainclothes and went looking for the cause alone, and met the woman. Suddenly he disappeared, and just jumped onto a big tree and hid. The counsellor's trick not only dispelled the rumor spread by the government: "Huang Chao waved his sword across the mountain and people will be beheaded!", but also won the support of the people for the rebel army, and made it a trend for the people to accumulate virtue and do good deeds. People then inherited this tradition, and it has become the custom of "inserting mugwort" on the Dragon Boat Festival today. The people of Luhe are Hakka, most of whom migrated to Luhe from the Central Plains. Therefore, most of them have maintained the customs of "walking Huang Chao" and "planting mugwort". Your horoscope has secretly arranged your love luck information. In order to stop struggling for love, quickly click on the "Premium Calculation" below for advance predictions. I wish you can find the right one soon! |
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