Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival (or Double Fifth Festival) for the annual Lunar New Year in May, also known as the end of the festival, afternoon festival, May Festival. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national legal holidays, and has been included in the world of intangible cultural heritage list. Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, the first Chinese people to quench the festivals of the festival, Wu Yue of the Spring and Autumn before the fifth day of the fifth month in the form of dragon boat races held tribal totem worship custom; after the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became The Chinese people to commemorate the traditional festivals Qu Yuan; part of the region also have to commemorate Wu Zixu, Cao E and other claims.

Folk activities

Over the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese people for more than two thousand years of traditional habits, due to the vast territory, many nationalities, coupled with many stories of the legend, so not only produced a number of different section name, and around also have different customs. The main contents are: daughter back to her mother, hanging Zhong Kui like, ghost ship, yu afternoon, posts leaves leaves, hanging calamus, wormwood, travel all the disease, wear sachets, prepare livestock and wine, race dragon boat, contest, hit the ball , Swing, give the child Tuhuanghuang, drinking male rice wine, calamus wine, eat five poison cake, salted egg, dumplings and seasonal fruit and so on.

The earliest emergence of the Dragon Boat Festival food, should be the Western Han Dynasty "owl". "Historical Records" "filial piety of the discipline" Note such as Chun Yan: "Han to the East County to send owl, May 5 for the Ouchang to give Baiguan. To the evil bird, so eat the food." Probably because the owl is not easy to capture, so the practice of eating a little soup did not continue down. File is the protagonist of the Dragon Boat Festival - dumplings, later appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Has been to the Jin Dynasty, dumplings became the Dragon Boat Festival food should be. "The soil in mind": "May 5, with the summer solstice, ... ... the first two days, but also to the wild leaves wrapped in sticky rice, mixed with millet, to Chun pure gray sauce cooked cooked." At the same time there are another A kind of Dragon Boat Festival diet, known as the "turtle" only in the Jin Dynasty flash in the pan, then disappeared. Only the "mind" in the known as "corn millet" dumplings, because attached to the legend in Qu Yuan, thousands of years, to become the most popular Dragon Boat Festival diet.

Such as some traditional eating habits:

Realgar

Dragon Boat drink the practice of yellow wine, formerly in the Yangtze River region is very popular. Anthem said: "drink the realgar, the disease are far away." Realgar is a mineral, commonly known as "chicken crown stone", its main ingredient is arsenic sulfide, and contains mercury, toxic. The general consumption of realgar wine, but in the liquor or brewed rice wine by adding trace of realgar, no pure drink. Roasted fungus has the effect of sterilization deworming five drugs, Chinese medicine is also used to cure skin diseases. In the absence of iodine and other disinfectants in the ancient, with male liquor, you can quench itching. Not to drink the age of children, adults give their forehead, nose and mouth, hand, foot and so on coated with realgar wine, intended to disinfection and disease prevention, insects do not bite.

Five yellow

Jiangsu and Zhejiang with the Dragon Boat Festival to eat "five yellow" custom. Five yellow refers to cucumber, eel, yellow croaker, Gaoyou duck egg yolk, realgar wine. In addition, the northern Zhejiang Dragon Boat Festival also eat tofu.

Cake cake

The Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for the Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is the fragrant cake. Cake, is the mugwort and glutinous rice, placed in a single wood chiseled large wooden trough, with long handle wood beat made of rice cakes. This food is very national characteristics, but also add festive atm