The lunar may fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival, is Chinas more than two thousand years old customs, on this day, families are the doors, hanging moxa calamus, dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, drink realgar wine, swim all ills, sweet bursa.
The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the warring states period, when there was a man called qu yuan, who was a loyal minister. When the king of chu listened to the words of the rape officer, he took the exile of qu yuan. In exile, qu yuan heard that the capital of the state of chu was occupied by the enemy. On the fifth day of may, he came to the miluo river, held a stone and plunged into the miluo river. The people who went abroad heard the news of qu yuans investment in the river. They rowed boats in tears, and threw them into the river to feed the fish, hoping that the fish would not harm qu yuans body. This is the origin of the zongzi in May.
The dragon boat race was a man of chu because he couldnt bear to die, so a lot of people rowed to the rescue. They were scrambling to find their way to dongting lake, the origin of the dragon boat race, and the dragon boat was on May 5 each year. And the zongzi is the people not to bear the loyal minister to be eaten by the fish and shrimp, so the rice and other food are made into zongzi into the river, in order to protect the body of qu yuan.
The kids still h**e to hang the sachets. The children of the Dragon Boat Festival, the child, not only has the intention of **oiding evil spirits, but also has the style of the front. Sweet bursa, cinnabar, realgar, xiang, outsourcing to wire cloth, fragrance 4 excessive, again the five-color silk string into a rope buckle, for a variety of different shapes, form a series, variety, and exquisite.
The Dragon Boat Festival has the habit of hanging moxa leaf, calamus: during the Dragon Boat Festival, every family to calamus, folium artemisiae argyi, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made into humanoid called ai. Hang the le**es in the hall and cut them into a tiger or a ribbon, and stick it with the le**es of the mugwort. Using calamus as a sword and inserting it into the lintel, it has the magical effect of exorcism.
Dragon Boat Festival is a lot of activities, this is the traditional festival of our Chinese nation, we are better to inherit!