Origin and custom of the Dragon Boat Festival

Origin and custom of the Dragon Boat Festival
Brief introduction on the Dragon Boat Festival :
Five of the beginning of the fifth lunar month, the folk traditional festival that it is China - -In festival on the Dragon Boat Festival, it is an old one in traditional festival of Chinese nation. Call the end five too on the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival. In addition, there are a lot of another names on the Dragon Boat Festival, for instance: Noon festival, it is five sections in weight,the Dragon Boat Festival, bath sections, daughter section blue, section in it, cured, poet section, Ri Long,etc.. There are different on though name,it say custom that peoples regional celebrate a festival is still generally with more than different one.
Pass in the festival on the Dragon Boat Festival, it is traditional habits for over 2,000 years of Chinese, because the region is vast, nationalities are numerous, add a lot of story legends, then has not merely produced the numerous different festivals name, and there is custom not the same in all parts . Its content is mainly as follows, the daughter comes home, hang Chung Kuei's portrait, meets spirit's ship, hides from noon, the card leaf incantation at noon, the grass hang the Rhizoma Acori Graminei, end, visit one hundred disease, wear fragrant bag, prepare against the intersection of domestic animal and Li, dragon-boat racing, tourney, bat, play on a swing, give to child with Realgar, drink grand yellow wine, Rhizoma Acori Graminei wine, eat five poisonous creatures: scorpion, viper, centipede, house lizard, toad's cake, salted duck egg, Zongzi and seasonal fresh fruit,etc., besides already disappearing gradually in superstitious activity, the others spread all over China and are near all countries so far. Some move about, such as dragon-boat racing,etc., have already got new development, has broken through time, region boundary line, have become international competitive sports .
About the origin on Dragon Boat Festival, there are very many statements, for example: Commemorate Qu Yuan says; Commemorate Wu Zixu says; Commemorate pretty young woman Cao say; Start from the festival of the Summer Solstice of three generations and say; Evil monthly evil drive, avoid, say Wu national totem is held a memorial ceremony for and said etc. month day. The above each says, every its source. According to scholar Mr. Wen Yiduo>With>Over one hundred ancient books enumerated record and expert's archaeology is criticized of a text, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, it is ancient southern Wu Yue nationality of China that holds the festival that the totem holds a memorial ceremony for, it is earlier than Qu Yuan. But through the ages, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poem diction, have already been rooted in the hearts of the people extensively, so people " L Cherish but sad it, its diction of the theory generation, here according to legend " ,So commemorate the intersection of Qu Yuan and saying, influence most wide and most dark, occupy the major status. In the field of folk culture, dragon boat regatta and take Zongzi,etc. for Dragon Boat Festival Chinese people, with commemorating Qu Yuan is linked to.
Even to this day, it is still a grand festival very in vogue in the Chinese people on the Dragon Boat Festival

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