What should you wear during the Dragon Boat Festival?
For a big festival like the Dragon Boat Festival, there are definitely certain requirements in terms of customs in terms of food, clothing, etc. So let’s take a look at what kind of requirements there are in terms of clothing for the next big festival, the Dragon Boat Festival. The first noon of the fifth lunar month, in midsummer, is a good day for climbing Shunyang. Let us welcome the Dragon Boat Festival and experience the 2018 Dragon Boat Festival together on the Fortune Teller website.What do people usually wear during the Dragon Boat Festival?Since the original meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil and cure diseases, the dress code is in line with this:1. Wearing sachets: This is also one of the characteristics of the Dragon Boat Festival. Children wearing sachets are said to ward off evil spirits and drive away plague. Sachets made from medicinal plants containing various scents can also prevent disease. 2. Wearing a gourd: Children and adults wear gourds not only to ward off evil spirits and plague, but also to decorate their collars. Wearing a gourd which symbolizes "blessings and fortune" in traditional culture can turn hostility into peace and enhance the aura of good fortune. 3. Wearing colorful threads: Ying Shao’s Customs and Practice records that “On the fifth day of the fifth month, people tie colorful silk on their arms, which is called the long life thread, the extended life thread, the anti-bearing silk, the five-color thread, and the red thread. It can ward off soldiers and ghosts and keep people from getting sick from plague”, indicating that wearing colorful threads can protect people from getting sick. What's the point of wearing these?1. In order to prevent diseases and keep fit, the elderly generally like to wear ornaments in the shapes of plum blossoms, chrysanthemums, peaches, apples, lotus flowers, dolls riding on fish, dolls holding roosters, and twin lotus flowers. These symbolize the singing of birds and the fragrance of flowers, good luck, love between husband and wife, and family harmony. Children like birds and animals, such as tigers and leopards; monkeys climbing poles, cockfighting and chasing rabbits, etc. Young people are most particular about wearing sachets. If they are lovers in love, the passionate girl will carefully make one or two unique sachets early and give them to her lover before the festival.2. In fact, wearing a gourd is taken from the homonym of "fortune and luck", and the purpose is to pray to turn hostility into peace and enhance the aura of blessings. There is not much particularity about this. 3. The ancients worshipped five colors, and therefore regarded the five colors as auspicious colors. In the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the first thing adults did after getting up was to tie five-colored threads on their children's wrists, ankles, and necks. Children are forbidden to speak when the string is being tied. The five-colored thread cannot be broken or discarded at will and can only be thrown into the river after a heavy rain in summer or when taking a bath for the first time. It is said that children wearing five-colored threads can avoid being harmed by poisonous snakes, scorpions and other insects; throwing them into the river means letting the river water wash away the plague and disease, so that the children can stay healthy. |
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