Fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also called DuanYangJie, afternoon day festival, may festival, ai festival, terminal five, midday, summer day. Although the name is different, but all around the custom of the peoples holiday is the same. The Dragon Boat Festival is Chinas two thousand years old customs, on this day, every family hanging moxa calamus, dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, drink realgar wine, swim all ills, sweet bursa.
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, you know the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival? ! I dont know! Let me tell you! Do you remember the patriotic general chu qu yuan? I to say him!
Qu yuan is the warring states period abroad, very learned. He beside the king a few to image is his country rich and strong. Treacherous court official, listen to the words, bad king king chu qu yuan XiaoZhi exile. In exile, qu yuan heard that chu capital held by the enemy, and the people suffer, very indignation. Falls on this day, he came to the miluo river edge, with a stone, in order to jump jumped into the miluo river. Abroad people hear that cast jiang qu yuan was very sad. They rowed steadily to salvage qu yuan, with tears in their eyes, also threw rice dumplings into the river feed the fish, hope that the fish dont harm the body of qu yuan. This is may duanyang the origin of zongzi.
The Dragon Boat Festival has a lot of interesting activities. Columns such as dragon boat racing, hanging sachet, sachet, cinnabar, realgar, xiang, outsourcing to wire cloth, fragrance 4 excessive, again the five-color silk string into a rope buckle, for all kinds of different shape, form a series, variety, and exquisite. H**e the habit of hanging moxa leaf, calamus.
There were so many activity in the Dragon Boat Festival!