Stories about festivals

(A) Qu Yuan into the river

In memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, in order to prevent Qu Yuan's body from being eaten by fish and shrimp, residents threw a lot of rice (zongzi) wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river and competed to find Qu Yuan's body.

(2) Cao E found her father's body.

Cao E, a dutiful daughter of the Eastern Han Dynasty, died because Cao Fu threw herself into the river. /kloc-when she was 0/4 years old, she cried by the river. 17 days later, Cao Fu's body is still missing. She threw herself into the river on May 1 day, and five days later, the two bodies closed and floated, and were sacrificed by the villagers.

(3) Legend of White Snake

Legend has it that Empress White Snake married Xu Xian in return for her kindness. It is said that on the Dragon Boat Festival, the white snake drank realgar wine, which was almost snake-shaped. It is a famous folk drama, together with The Legend of the White Snake in Fahai and the flooded Jinshan Temple.

(4) The anniversary of Wu Zixu's death.

Legend has it that after Wu Zixu helped Wu attack Chu, He Lv died and Fu Cha succeeded to the throne, winning a great victory. Ju Jian, the King of Yue, invited him to make peace and Wu Zixu fought the main battle. Fu Cha did not listen, but listened to the treacherous court official and committed suicide for Wu Zixu. On May 5th, he threw the body into the river. After that, people offered sacrifices to Wu Zixu on the Dragon Boat Festival.

Legend of the lantern festival

After the death of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, Lv Hou's son Liu Ying became Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty. Hui Di was born weak and indecisive, and power gradually fell into the hands of Lv Hou. After Hui Di's death, he monopolized state affairs and turned Liu's world into Lu's. Senior officials in the DPRK and Liu Zongshi were deeply indignant, but they were afraid of cruelty and dared not tell anyone.

After Lv Hou's death, Zhu Lu has been in a state of anxiety, afraid of being hurt and excluded. So, he secretly gathered in the general's home and plotted with * * * to make trouble in order to completely seize Liu's country.

This incident reached the ears of Liu Nang, the king of Qi in the Liu clan. In order to protect Liu's country, Liu Nang decided to attack Zhu Lu. Then, he contacted Zhou Bo and Chen Ping, founding fathers, and designed and promoted Lv Lu. The "Zhu-Lu Rebellion" was finally completely put down.

After the rebellion, the ministers made Liu Heng, the second son of Liu Bang, emperor and called him Emperor of Chinese. Impressed by the hard-won peace and prosperity, Emperor Wen designated the 15th day of the first month of the first month to quell the "Zhu-Lu Rebellion" as a day to have fun with the people, and every household in Beijing celebrated with lanterns and colorful decorations. Since then, the fifteenth day of the first month has become a folk festival celebrated by everyone-"Lantern Festival".

Playing with dragons-the origin of Lantern Festival

Every Spring Festival, people beat gongs and drums and play with dragons and lions to celebrate the Lantern Festival. Why do people play with dragons to celebrate the Lantern Festival?

According to legend, in ancient times, the weather was good, the crops were bumper, the people were well-fed and lived in peace and contentment. One year, a disaster suddenly happened in the world. In many cities, floods flooded many houses and drowned many people. Outside the city, there has never been a drought, the fields are cracked and the springs are smoking, which makes people really unable to live. There is a Qinglong who lives in the mountains and has a very kind heart. It sees such a tragic scene between heaven and earth, and it pities the suffering people. It decided to go to the upper bound to find out.

One day, the wind roared and the rain poured down, and the dragon was walking towards the upper bound. It turned itself into a dead man, pretended to have something to find the jade emperor, and passed the worse gate smoothly. In this way, Qinglong dressed up in disguise, skillfully broke through one checkpoint after another, inquired carefully in the upper bound, visited everywhere, and finally found out the flood and

Reasons for the drought: The Queen Mother of the Western Heaven invited the Jade Emperor to dinner; Wang Di likes drinking very much. He drank many bowls of fragrant and delicious manna again and again and got as drunk as a fiddler. After the banquet, the jade emperor returned to the palace to handle affairs, still dizzy, so he wrote the rain wrong-it should be three minutes inside the city and five minutes outside the city. The jade emperor let it rain for five minutes in the city and three minutes outside the city. The city's rainfall is five o'clock, and there is too much rain; It rains for three minutes outside the city, and there is too little rain. In this way, the city was flooded and the outside world was cracked.

Knowing this reason, Qinglong sneaked into the Heavenly Palace and changed Colleen Chan: it was changed to 3 o'clock rainfall in the city and 5 o'clock rainfall outside the city. In this way, the world slowly recovered its true colors. When the Jade Emperor sobered up, he realized that he had ordered the wrong Colleen Chan. He wanted to correct it, but he was afraid that ministers would say that he was careless and broke his promise, so he had to make mistakes. Later, the Jade Emperor suddenly found that his Colleen Chan had been changed, which made him feel great.

Anger: Who dares to change Colleen Chan against my will? So he ordered the heavenly soldiers to trace it everywhere, and at the same time sent people down to earth to ask for an interview. Later, it was found out that Qinglong did it, and the Jade Emperor appointed the prime minister around him to punish Qinglong.

The Prime Minister was sent to the mortal world by the Jade Emperor and found the emperor. Knowing that he was an emissary sent by the Jade Emperor in the sky, the emperor did not dare to treat it lightly, and immediately took out delicacies to entertain the Prime Minister. After dinner, the emperor and the prime minister played chess in the garden. After a while, I saw the Prime Minister snore with his head down. The emperor didn't dare to disturb him, so he had to stand by and wait on him. After a while, the sweat on the Prime Minister's face dripped one by one. The emperor is a little strange: it's the first month, and it's still a little cold. Why is the Prime Minister sitting and sweating? So he asked Gong E to take out a fan to cool the Prime Minister. Fan for a while, the prime minister breathed a long sigh of relief and woke up. The Prime Minister thanked him and said, "Thank you for helping me a lot."

"Thank you? How much help have I given you? " The emperor was puzzled.

"Well, you helped me kill Qinglong."

"What? I helped you kill Qinglong? " The emperor was even more surprised.

"yes." Only then did the prime minister solve the mystery for the emperor. It turned out that the Prime Minister left a figure sitting in the garden, but the entity went to fight with Qinglong. Although the Prime Minister is skilled in martial arts, Qinglong is also practiced. Just as the two sides were fighting fiercely and the outcome was close, the emperor's Gong E stirred up a gust of wind. It was here that a gust of wind attacked the battlefield and greatly helped the Prime Minister. Suddenly, I was refreshed and my strength doubled. After fighting for a while, Qinglong couldn't resist the enemy and was killed by the Prime Minister.

After being beheaded by the Prime Minister, Qinglong became a divine bird, crowing outside the Jade Emperor's Hall all day, pleading with the Jade Emperor. Every day, the Jade Emperor listened and felt ashamed-he wrote Colleen Chan wrong and killed Qinglong instead. He felt very sorry, so he sent a book to the world and asked the emperor to send a message to the people to commemorate the Qinglong who benefited the people.

Therefore, in the first month of each year, people tie bamboo into a dragon, paste it with paper and silk, and draw it with colored pens according to the dragon's appearance, making the paper dragon lifelike and magnificent. On the fifteenth day of the first month (the day of killing Qinglong), every household decorated with lanterns, beat gongs and drums, and carried Qinglong in the street. Men, women and children rejoiced to show people's gratitude and nostalgia for Qinglong.

From then on, every January, we will play with dragons. This custom has been passed down to the present.

☆ Laba Festival

1February 8 is Laba Festival. There was no regular twelfth lunar month in ancient times. After the Jin Dynasty, December was the twelfth lunar month, so December 8 was called Laba. Legend has it that Buddha Sakyamuni became a monk here. To commemorate Sakyamuni, all temples in Tokyo (Kaifeng) in the Northern Song Dynasty held Buddha baths on this day, and made seven treasures and five flavors porridge, called Laba porridge, also known as Buddha porridge. Later, people also made Laba porridge, and even the court made Laba porridge as a gift for officials. It is very common to eat Laba porridge on Laba Festival in all parts of Shandong. Laba porridge in Texas is made of eight kinds of five-grain fruits, among which there must be dates to symbolize good luck. The jujube of Laba porridge is "early" and chestnut is "strong", that is, work hard early to strive for a bumper harvest of grain next year. Make laba porridge thicker and more sticky. Stickiness is the homonym of "Lian", which means a bumper harvest every year. The Yellow River Estuary reclaimed wasteland, and there was a bride at home. Laba uses yellow rice and red dates to make cakes, which is called "eating bowls of cakes". Jimo regards Laba Festival as a farmer's festival, which is said to be taken from the "seven people and eight valleys" and is a commemoration of the valley.

Laba Festival is in the middle of winter and the weather is cold. As the saying goes, "Laba Laba, freezing to death is called melting." In the old days, places like Zouping had to wait for Laba Festival to show kindness to long-term workers. When they left, they presented some Laba cakes.