The Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is called the Dragon Boat Festival every year, which is one of the biggest traditional festivals in China.

According to the order of the stem and branch calculation, May is the “afternoon” month, noon is “Yang Chen”, so the Dragon Boat Festival in the countryside is also known as Duanyang.

The Dragon Boat Festival has evolved to date has thousands of years of history, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the ancient Chinese people of the worship of the dragon totem, midsummer Dragon Boat Festival that day, black dragon seven nights, just to the south of the sky, in the position of good luck, is the legendary day of the dragon, that is, “The Book of Yijing” said the flying dragon in the day.

The ancient Baiyue people had the custom of cutting their hair and tattooing. They thought they were the descendants of the dragon, and they lived near the water. Ancient Baiyue people in the Dragon Boat Festival on this day to sacrifice their ancestors.

Later, due to the rule of Qin Shi Huang, most of the ancient Baiyue and Han people mixed.

So the Dragon Boat Festival has become a traditional festival of the Han people.

Up to now, the inheritance of the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually lost the inheritance of ancestor worship ceremony, and has been endowed with new significance in the development of The Times. Now, the significance ofthe Dragon Boat Festival has been endowed with different meaning in different mythology sources

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Green reed leaves wrapped auspicious, filled with sincere affection long, clearthe river dragon boat swing, light yellow wine solution worries, Dragon BoatFestival came again, happiness around the side. Wish Dragon Boat Festival healthy.

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Post time: Jun-15-2021