Why don’t we say Happy Dragon Boat Festival?
Introduction: The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, but why don’t we say Happy Dragon Boat Festival? What special meaning does it have? The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year is the date of the Dragon Boat Festival. Fortune Teller Network provides you with a detailed overview of the cultural content of the Dragon Boat Festival in 2018.Why don’t we say Happy Dragon Boat Festival?It is inappropriate to wish friends and family a "Happy Dragon Boat Festival". It is like Qingming Festival, no one wishes anyone a happy one... because this is the Qingming of Qu Yuan and others.The Dragon Boat Festival, the day to commemorate Qu Yuan and Wu Zixu, has more than twenty nicknames, including Dragon Boat Festival, Double Fifth Festival, Calamus Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival... The most famous of these is naturally the day to commemorate Qu Yuan. "I sigh deeply and wipe away my tears, mourning the hardships of people's lives." The Dragon Boat Festival has a strong tragic color and "sacrifice" custom because of Qu Yuan's death. In fact, it is also the anniversary of another ancient hero, Wu Zixu. The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which marks the beginning of summer (the month of Wu). The ancients described this period as an "evil month and evil day" when "the five poisons are all out", so there are various customs of praying for peace and warding off disasters. The weather is hot and dry in summer, making it easy for people to get sick and plagues to spread. In addition, snakes and insects breed and can easily bite people, so we must be extremely careful. Dragon Boat Festival is equivalent to "Public Health Day" On this day, the three things that usually happen are eating, tying and picking. One is to eat the "Five Yellows", that is, foods with the word yellow in their names, which means "connecting the gap"; there is also a custom of drinking realgar wine. An old saying goes, "Drinking realgar wine will keep away all diseases." The second is to tie a gourd and a broom and hang a picture of the five poisons. The third is to pick mugwort and stick the whole plant on the door. There are also folk customs such as making children wear colorful ropes, hang small peppers, wear tiger shoes, and write the word "king" on their heads. They all have the meaning of driving away disasters and plagues and seeking health and good fortune. From this perspective, the Dragon Boat Festival can be regarded as an important node for disease prevention and control in ancient times, similar to today's "Public Health Day". Therefore, saying "Auspicious Dragon Boat Festival" or "Happy Dragon Boat Festival" is obviously much more appropriate. In some southern regions, the Dragon Boat Festival also means "filial piety day". Ma Xiaokun said that during the Eastern Han Dynasty, the fourteen-year-old Miss Cao'e lost her father after he drowned in the river. She cried and searched along the river for his body, but when she couldn't find it, she jumped into the river and committed suicide. The bodies of the father and daughter floated up on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and Cao E actually hugged her father's body from behind. Therefore, Cao E was praised as a model of "filial daughter" and was missed by the villagers. At the same time, Dragon Boat Festival is also one of the ancient memorial days for the dead. On this day, people mourn the restless ghosts and pray for them to leave. This memorial day for the dead was later moved due to the introduction of Buddhism and was replaced by the Ullambana Festival on July 15th. Miss sister: The above is [Why don’t we say happy Dragon Boat Festival? 】, I hope the entire content can be helpful to everyone! |
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