Why do people stick five poisonous animals on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May? Where do they come from?
The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most important traditional festivals in my country. Various cultural customs are popular all over the country during the Dragon Boat Festival. So why do we "stick the five poisonous animals" on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May? Let’s find out together. The Dragon Boat Festival in 2018 has been one of the most important traditional festivals throughout the ages, with a series of folk customs such as dragon boat racing and eating rice dumplings. Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is one of the world's intangible cultural heritage that my country has applied for.Why do people stick five poisonous animals on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month?Folk beliefs hold that May is a poisonous month and the fifth day is a poisonous day. There are five poisonous animals, namely snakes, centipedes, scorpions, lizards and toads. This month is full of disasters, even children may die, so various preventive measures must be taken, including taking medicine and using religious means to avoid the harm of the five poisons. In order to deal with the five poisonous creatures, people give fans to children on the Dragon Boat Festival, require them to wear five-poison bellybands, wear sachets, catch toads, post Dragon Boat Festival talismans, bathe in orchid soup, and so on. Married women in Tianjin have to take their children to the riverside to "hide from the noon" and throw the evil-avoiding items they are wearing, such as cloth dolls and cloth dogs, into the water, and take the small cloth doll to replace the one that suffers the disaster, commonly known as the "dog bites the disaster star".First, wear an evil-repelling plant. At first, people planted calamus and mugwort. Most people in the countryside collect and use them for themselves, while in the city there are people selling calamus and mugwort on the streets. Later, pomegranate flowers, garlic and dragon boat flowers were added, collectively known as the Five Ends of Heaven, which can counter the Five Poisonous Agents. Secondly, people sell five-tiger flowers during the Dragon Boat Festival and wear them as protective spiritual objects. These ornaments, also known as sachets, are used in some areas to draw the word "王" on children's foreheads with realgar wine to ward off evil spirits. In some places, people even specially make five-poison clothes and five-poison vests for children to wear for protection. In addition, people also post Yong'an talismans and hold Zhong Kui competitions. There are also many folk paper-cuts about preventing the five poisonous creatures, such as the gourd that brings down disasters, the gourd with mugwort, tiger, calamus and sword, and the tiger that suppresses the five poisonous creatures. Third, the customs of visiting the Temple of Heaven. This is mainly popular in the old Beijing area. In addition, a pomegranate flower show is also held. |
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