What is the “alias” for the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May? What is the meaning and connotation?
In our daily life, we all know that the Dragon Boat Festival is an extremely important festival. It has a long history in China, so it has various aliases. So what are the "aliases" of the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May? During the Dragon Boat Festival, people race boats and eat rice dumplings. This traditional festival celebrated throughout the world not only carries the expectations of the ancients, but also carries people’s hopes for the future. Let’s take a look at the relevant content of the Dragon Boat Festival in 2018!Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Duanwu Festival, Double Fifth Festival, Double Fifth Festival, Mid-day Festival, May Festival, Summer Festival, Evil Day Festival, Herb Picking Festival, Herb Sending Festival, Mugwort Festival, Calamus Festival, Cattail Festival, Calamus Festival, Orchid Bathing Festival, Orchid Bathing Festival, Grass Fighting Festival, Children's Festival, Doll Festival, Sachet Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zongzi Festival, Zongbao Festival, Bitter Melon Festival, Poets Festival, Hygiene Festival.The name Duan Yang comes from the fact that "five" is a yang number (odd numbers are yang, even numbers are yin), so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duan Yang. The names of the Evil Day, Mugwort Festival, Cattail Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Grass Fighting Festival and Children's Festival come from the fact that the Dragon Boat Festival was considered a poisonous day in ancient times. Traditional customs require people to go up the mountain to collect herbs, insert medicinal plants such as mugwort and calamus on the door or in the hall, drink realgar wine, bathe in orchid soup, and children wear sachets tied with colorful silk ropes around their necks, hands or ankles (adults tie them on their arms) in order to ward off poison, evil and evil spirits. In order to commemorate the Chu poet Qu Yuan, various activities such as dragon boat racing, eating rice dumplings, stepping on hundreds of herbs and swinging on the autumn wind are held. From the introduction of the basic content of the festival, people can see the origin of the above name.Dragon Festival, Dragon Day Festival, Dragon Son FestivalThis is the view 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 people 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 people 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. Girls' Day, Nüwa Festival, Tianzhong Festival, and Diwa FestivalStrictly speaking, these names are not nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, but festivals that happen to fall on the same day as the Dragon Boat Festival and have different origins. The specific details are omitted in this article. If you want to know more, you can search on the Internet such as Baidu.There is another one that cannot be categorized and is particularly interesting, so it must be listed separately, called the "Bai Shang Festival". This nickname was first proposed by the author in 1994. "Miscellaneous Notes on the Sui and Sui Dynasties in Wu Zhong" records: "During the Dragon Boat Festival...everyone has a banquet to celebrate...all craftsmen stop their work and go to wine shops to drink, which is called the Bai Shang Festival." That is to say, during the Dragon Boat Festival, wealthy families hold many banquets, so ordinary people from all walks of life go to eat for free, thus giving rise to the nickname "Xialibaren". |
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