Another name for the Dragon Boat Festival. Why do we eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Another name for the Dragon Boat Festival. Why do we eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival?
The fifth day of the fifth month is the Dragon Boat Festival, an ancient traditional Chinese festival. According to statistics, the Dragon Boat Festival has the most names among all traditional Chinese festivals, with more than twenty names. Another name for the Dragon Boat Festival. Why do we eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival? Chinese people believe that the fifth month of the lunar calendar is a poisonous month, and the Dragon Boat Festival is the first of the nine poisonous days. For more relevant information about the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 2019, please visit Mr. Shui Mo's website!

Another name for Dragon Boat Festival

Tianzhong Festival: Because the Dragon Boat Festival is around the summer solstice, the sun's direct point is at the Tropic of Cancer, and the sun's position in the sky is the most central day of the year. Tian Rucheng of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "Records of West Lake Tours, Volume 20, Happy Events of the Xichao Period": "The Dragon Boat Festival is called the Tianzhong Festival because the sun reaches its highest point at noon, especially at noon, so it is called the "Tianzhong Festival".
Dragon Boat Festival: The name of the Dragon Boat Festival comes from the Yin-Yang numerology. The day of noon is called "Yangchen", the first day of the noon month, so it is called Duan Yang. "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji" said: Because people climb high places in midsummer when the sun is in the sky, and May is midsummer, its first noon is the right day for climbing high places with good weather, so it is called the "Dragon Boat Festival".
Double Fifth Festival: The Dragon Boat Festival originally fell on the day of the fifth month in the Chinese zodiac calendar. The first month of the year was the month of Tiger, and the fifth month was the month of Tiger. The day of the fifth month was called the Double Fifth Festival. During the Han Dynasty, due to the unification of the north and the south and changes in the calendar, the imperial court decreed that the Dragon Boat Festival be changed to the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in order to facilitate the celebration of the festival.
Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon boat racing was originally a form of sacrificial activity for the ancient Yue people to worship their dragon ancestor. Boats were common in Nanyue, and dragon images were often painted on the bow and stern of the boat as the totem or patron saint of the tribe. Dragon boat racing is an important activity during the Dragon Boat Festival and is very popular in southern China, especially in Guangdong.

Why do we eat rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival?

It is said that zongzi is an offering to Qu Yuan during the Dragon Boat Festival. As early as the Southern Dynasty, Wu Jun recorded this in "Continued Records of Qixie": "Qu Yuan threw himself into Miluo River and died on May 5th. The people of Chu mourned him and would store rice in bamboo tubes and throw them into the river to offer sacrifice to him on this day. During the Jianwu period of the Han Dynasty, a man suddenly appeared in the daytime in Ququ, Changsha. He claimed to be a senior official of the Three Pavilions and said to him: 'You should come to offer sacrifices, which is very good. But what is usually left is often stolen by mosquitoes and dragons. If you are willing to help, you can put leaves on it and use colorful silk to tie it up. These two things are feared by prostitutes and dragons!' Qu followed his advice. People in the world make zongzi and put colorful silk and Lai leaves on it, which are all the legacy of the tear silk."
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