Immortal fire, I hate wearing ornaments on the Dragon Boat Festival. It is also called life-sustaining line, lifeline, life-prolonging line and longevity line. It is also called "Bai Suo", "Little Ice" and "Colored Line" with different names and basically the same shape and function. During the Dragon Boat Festival, it is made of five-color silk, or hung at the door, or worn around the child's neck, or tied on the child's arm, or hung on the bed curtain, cradle and other places. It is said that it can avoid disasters and get rid of diseases, bless well-being and prolong life. This festival has five shapes: simple five-color silk threads are combined into a rope and tied to the arm; Decorate Suk Kim ornaments on colorful ropes and hang them around your neck; Colorful ropes are folded into squares and decorated on the chest; Colorful knots are worn by portraits; Embroider the sun, moon, stars, black beasts and other things with colored silk thread to pay tribute to the elders. This custom began in the Han Dynasty. Ying Shao wrote "Lost Customs" in the Eastern Han Dynasty: "In the afternoon, tie your arms with colorful silks to avoid ghosts and soldiers, so that people will not get sick. One is a long-lived ghost fire, and the other is a soldier. " Later, they gradually got used to it, until it was near modern times. Qing Fu Chaton's "Yanjing Years" recorded the custom at that time: "Every time the sun goes down, those who are clever in the boudoir will make tigers, zongzi, gourds, cherries and mulberries with colored threads and hang them on their hair pins or tie them on the backs of children." Among them, in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the imperial court gave ministers things like saving things. In the first year of Xingyuan in Tang Daizong, the court gave one hundred rope axes. "Book of Rites XV": "The day before, the golden thread was given an official life extension, and the colored thread was given an official life extension. Wear it on holidays. "
Top 9 Mulan Decoction
Mulan soup, taking a bath at noon, and orchid soup are ancient customs recorded in Dai Li. At that time, orchids were not orchids today, but flying grasses of Compositae, which were fragrant and could be decocted and bathed. "Nine Songs in the Cloud" also has the sentence "Bathing orchid soup will make you fragrant". "The Chronicle of Jingchu": "May 5th is called the Blue Bath Festival." "Five Miscellanies" records that people in the Ming Dynasty took a bath with five-colored grass at noon because "there was no orchid soup". Later, herbs such as cattail and wormwood were usually fried for bathing. In Guangdong, use wormwood, cattail, impatiens, magnolia and other flowers and plants; In Hunan, Guangxi and other places, cypress leaves, anemone roots, wormwood, cattail and peach leaves are used for bathing. Regardless of men, women and children, the whole family washes. This custom still exists today. It is said that it can cure skin diseases and ward off evil spirits.
TOP 8 Zhong Kui, bless the town house.
Every household on the Dragon Boat Festival please welcome "Tang? Blessing the Sage in the Town House "is a real activity in Zhong Kui. It is said that the real Zhong Kui (Zhong Kui, Zhong Kui with the trademark "Zhong Kui's hometown" in Happy Valley of Xi 'an Zhong Kui in Huxian County, Shaanxi Province, is called the real Zhong Kui) is invited into the house: "Blessing the town house, only the real Zhong Kui", "Visiting Zhong Kui, winning the first prize" and "Zhong Kui miraculously appeared and sent us a happy birthday." Comrade Mao Zedong also wrote in his letter to Jiang Qing on July 8, 1966/kloc-0: "With the help of Zhong Kui, he blessed the town house and invited Zhong Kui.
Throughout the year, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, people will go to Happy Valley, Zhong Kui's hometown, to pray, cultivate one's morality, cultivate one's mind, board and lodging, take vacations and visit, in order to achieve happiness and well-being.
Throughout the year, especially during the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, people will still visit the Tang Dynasty. Bless the sage of the town house "Happy Valley, the hometown of Zhong Kui.
Seven drinks realgar wine
The wine comprises Realgar, Zhu Lei, Platycladus orientalis, Peach kernel, Folium Typhae and Folium Artemisiae Argyi. People soak it in corners, doors and windows, under beds and other places. Then apply wine to the child's ears, nose and navel to drive away poisonous insects and ask the child to be safe. In addition, in some areas, realgar wine powder is used to draw the word "Wang" on children's foreheads, so that children have the mark of tigers to ward off evil spirits. From a health point of view, these activities are still scientific and reasonable. Realgar mixed with water and wine can be disinfected indoors, and drinking general sprinkling is also quite beneficial.
TOP 6 cabbage grass
This is one of the oldest customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. "Xia Zhengxiao" contains: "Store medicine this day to remove toxic gas." Volume 22 of Miscellaneous Medicine Collection quotes the lost article of Miscellaneous Medicine Collection at the Age of Jingchu: "On May 5, competing for miscellaneous medicine can cure all diseases." In the miscellaneous notes of Qi Yaomin's Book at the end of Wei Dynasty, there is a record of catching toads in May, which is also used in pharmacy. Later, many areas have the custom of catching toads on the Dragon Boat Festival. For example, in Jiangsu, toads are harvested at noon and their foam is punctured to make traditional Chinese medicine toad venom. People in Hangzhou also give their children toads, saying that summer can reduce fire and prevent sores. On the 5th, Mo Ding was put into the toad's mouth, hung and dried, and became a toad ingot, which could be dissipated by applying it to the abscess. This custom of catching toad medicine originated from the legend of "toad fighting for soldiers" in Han Dynasty. Another example is the custom of "collecting herbs" on the Dragon Boat Festival in Jianli, Hubei Province, which is also collecting herbs. Herb picking is because the stems and leaves of herbs are mature and have good medicinal properties around the Dragon Boat Festival, and this custom was formed on this day.
TOP 5 avoid five poisons
Dragon Boat Festival is a poisonous day and an evil day in the eyes of the ancients. This idea has been handed down in folk beliefs, so there are various customs of seeking peace and solving disasters. In fact, this is because the summer weather is hot and dry, people are easy to get sick, and the plague is easy to spread; In addition, snakes and insects are prone to bite people, so be very careful, which forms this habit. All kinds of customs, such as picking herbs, sprinkling realgar wine on the wall and drinking Pu wine, seem superstitious, but in fact they are also healthy health-keeping activities.
Top 4 Dai
Sachet, also called sachet, sachet, wallet, etc. , wrapped in colored silk thread and sewn with rags. Perfume (made from Chinese herbal medicines such as Radix Angelicae Dahuricae, Rhizoma Chuanxiong, Scutellariae Radix, Herba Paicao, Rhizoma Kaempferiae, Gan Song, and Kobayashi) is put on the chest, and the smell is fragrant. Chen Shiliang's Chronicle of Years Old quoted Miscellaneous Notes of Years Old as saying, "The Dragon Boat Festival is red and white, like a bag, with colored lines running through it and shaped like a flower." Another kind of "mussel powder bell": "On the fifth day, mussel powder is placed in silk and decorated with cotton, if there are several beads. Let the children take it to absorb sweat. " The things in these carry-on bags have changed several times, from sweat-absorbing mussel powder, amulets to ward off evil spirits, copper coins and realgar powder to sachets filled with spices, and their production has become increasingly exquisite, becoming a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.
The top three are wormwood and calamus.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, mugwort leaves, banyan trees and calamus are usually tied into a bundle with red paper and then inserted or hung on the door. Because Acorus calamus is the first of the five auspicious symbols in the sky, except for the ominous sword, the blade is sword-shaped and can be inserted at the door to ward off evil spirits. Wormwood represents a hundred blessings and is a kind of herbal medicine that can cure diseases. Inserting it at the door can make you healthy.
Top 2 dragon boat races
Dragon boat rowing is the biggest mass rally in Qu Yuan's hometown. When gongs and drums rang, the song of evocation was sung. With the call of "My brother is back", people from four towns and villages gathered on both sides of Xiling Gorge to commemorate Qu Yuan with the oldest and most solemn way of rowing dragon boats.
TOP 1 Dragon Boat Festival Zongzi
Zongzi first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, there were mainly two kinds of zongzi, which were made into horns by wrapping leaves (water bamboo leaves) with glutinous rice, called "corn millet"; Rice packed in bamboo tubes is sealed and baked, which is called "tube zongzi". In the Jin Dynasty, eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival has become a national custom, "Cooking corn on the Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer", which is clearly recorded in the book Local Records written by the Western Jin Dynasty and the early Zhou Dynasty. At that time, in addition to rice, jiaozi also added the Chinese herbal medicine Alpinia oxyphylla, which was called "Yizhi Zongzi". In the Tang Dynasty, Zongzi has become a necessary food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Yao He, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote the poem "The fishing song is loud, the wind is harmonious and the dumplings are fragrant", which reflected the popularity of eating zongzi at that time. In the Song Dynasty, there appeared "Ai Xiang Zongzi" wrapped in rice soaked in mugwort leaves. By the Yuan Dynasty, the wrapping material of zongzi had changed from water boiled rice to water boiled rice, which broke through the seasonal restriction of water boiled rice. In the Ming dynasty, zongzi wrapped in reed leaves appeared, and additional materials have appeared, such as bean paste, pork, pine nuts, dates and walnuts, and the varieties are more colorful. Today's popular "ham zongzi" appeared in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.
Now zongzi is more diverse and colorful. Nowadays, glutinous rice is generally wrapped in glutinous rice shells, but the color contained in it depends on local specialties and customs. The more famous ones are longan, meat, crystal, lotus seeds, candied fruit, chestnut, spicy, sauerkraut, ham and salted eggs.