Why is the Dragon Boat Festival healthy? Why is the Dragon Boat Festival happy and unlucky?

Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is the beginning of summer (noon). The ancients described it as "bad month and bad day" and "five poisons exhausted", so there are various customs of seeking peace and disaster relief. From this point of view, the Dragon Boat Festival can be described as an important node for disease removal and epidemic prevention in ancient times. Therefore, it is obviously more appropriate to say that "Dragon Boat Festival is auspicious" and "Dragon Boat Festival is healthy".

As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, eating zongzi, hanging mugwort leaves, soaking in water, and racing dragon boats, the familiar atmosphere and sense of ceremony are coming ... Times are changing, but the custom of Dragon Boat Festival has been circulating for thousands of years, which is a beautiful expression of China people's memory of their ancestors, praying for well-being and looking forward to reunion.

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Local customs of Dragon Boat Festival

1, Hubei

Bahe Town, Huanggang City, Hubei Province, welcomes Nuo people, crowns tattoos, and sings gold to drive away epidemics. In Zigui County, Yichang City, the Dragon Boat Festival is held, but it is especially lively on May 13, 14 and 13, and there are other activities of offering sacrifices and evoking souls to commemorate Dr. Qu. There is also the custom of bathing children in the sun on this day. May 15th is also called "Dragon Boat Festival", and May 25th is also called "the final sun". Eating zongzi and drinking Pu wine is the same as the Dragon Boat Festival.

2. Zhejiang

Dragon Boat Festival is a special festival with a long history, rich content and diverse cultural customs. Generally speaking, ancestor worship, dragon boat race, eating zongzi, offering sacrifices to dragon heads, lighting dzi beads, wearing red flowers, hanging calamus leaves, tying colored silk, drinking realgar wine, eating Huang Wu, wearing sachets and collecting herbs are common customs, but the contents or details of customs vary from place to place.

3. Gansu

Picking roses on Dragon Boat Festival in Jingning area of Gansu Province is mainly based on honey pickling. Zhenyuan county presented a fragrant fan, a Luo Qi, a towel handkerchief and a Ai Hu to the newlyweds during the Dragon Boat Festival. In Zhang Xi 'an County, the shepherd boy worships mountain gods. Accumulated salary mountain, chicken calls before burning, commonly known as "burning mountain" The Dragon Boat Festival in Gaoyou is very special. There are customs such as tying a hundred scorpions, sticking five poisons, sticking symbols, emitting yellow smoke and eating "Twelve Red". Children hang "duck eggs", that is, choose beautiful duck eggs, put them in colored lines and hang them on their chests.

4. Guangdong

In addition to rowing dragon boats and offering sacrifices to ancestors, Guangdong's Dragon Boat Festival custom also includes posting "noon symbols" after lunch. At noon, people worship family gods with fruits and zongzi, and burn wormwood to fumigate the corner of the house, which is called "repelling mosquitoes and evil spirits". Mix cinnabar with realgar wine, and point a red dot on the child's forehead, chest and palm to ward off evil spirits; As well as the customs of "dragon boat bathing", "embracing new skills" and "sending disasters".

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