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DUAN WU

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The annual Dragon Boat Festival has arrived. Do you know, astronomical experts say that this year’s Dragon Boat Festival is a bit special, because it is one of the last three Dragon Boat Festival in the 21st century, which is caused by the "leap moon" ~

In addition, what other unpopular knowledge does Dragon Boat Festival have? Come and get it ~

Why do you say "Dragon Boat Festival is healthy"?

Dragon Boat Festival is the beginning of summer (noon month). In May of the lunar calendar, the weather is humid and hot with many viruses, which has always been regarded as "bad month" by the ancients. The ancients described it as "the five poisons are exhausted", and snakes and insects breed, which is easy to bite people, people are easy to get sick and plagues are easy to spread.

Therefore, the main folk customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, including drinking realgar wine, carrying sachets, hanging calamus and wormwood, tying five-color silk thread and hanging five poison pictures, all have the meaning of expelling disasters and plagues and praying for peace and health.

The Dragon Boat Festival can be described as an important node for disease prevention and epidemic prevention in ancient times, which is similar to today’s "Public Health Day", which is why the greeting of the Dragon Boat Festival is "Dragon Boat Festival is healthy" rather than "Happy Dragon Boat Festival".

Why is the Dragon Boat Festival the festival with the most names?

Because there are more than 20 names of the Dragon Boat Festival, it can be called the most alias of the festival.

For example, there are Dragon Boat Festival, Duanwu Festival, Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Chang Festival, Pujie Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Yulan Festival, Zongzi Festival, Noon Day, Daughter’s Day, Dila Festival, Poet’s Day, Dragon Day, Noon Day, Lantern Festival and so on.

Do you know Qu Yuan’s surname?

When it comes to the Dragon Boat Festival, people will naturally think of Qu Yuan, a poet in the Warring States Period. He is a great patriotic poet in the history of China, and also the founder and representative writer of "Chu Ci".

According to legend, Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River during the Dragon Boat Festival, so when people talk about the Dragon Boat Festival, they will think of Qu Yuan. Then the question comes: Do you know Qu Yuan’s surname?

Qu Yuan’s surname is actually "Mi" (pronounced mǐ). Sima Qian once said in Biography of Qu Yuan: "Qu Yuan, whose name is Ping, is also a surname of Chu."

Qu Yuan was born in Chu State. Chu’s national surname is Mi, and the word "Qu" is his surname. In the pre-Qin period, a man called his surname instead of his surname, so his name was Qu Yuan, not Xiang Yuan.

Are zongzi leaves palm leaves?

Of course, zongzi leaves are used to make zongzi, but in fact, the zongzi leaves in our mouth do not refer to the leaves of a certain plant.

Nationwide, zongye can be reed leaves, Indocalamus leaves and a wide variety of other zongye, such as: bamboo leaves, peach leaves, banana leaves, lotus leaves and zongba leaves. And we usually use reed to make zongzi.

What was zongzi originally wrapped in?

According to "Compendium of Materia Medica", "The ancients wrapped millet in leaves and cooked them into sharp corners, such as palm leaves, so they called zongzi".

As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, millet was wrapped in leaves of Zizania latifolia (Zizania latifolia) into a horn shape, and then cooked with grass ash mixed with water, which was called "horn millet"; It will also be sealed and baked with rice in bamboo tubes, which is called "tube dumplings".

What was the earliest in the sachet?

Besides eating zongzi, there are many other customs in the Dragon Boat Festival, such as dragon boat racing, drinking realgar wine, hanging sachets, etc. Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which not only has the meaning of avoiding evil spirits and expelling plague, but also has the function of embellishing their heads.

Chen Shiliang’s "Guang Ji at the Age of Years" quoted "Miscellaneous Notes at the Age of Years" as saying that "Duanwu is made of red and white colors, such as a bag, and colored lines run through it, making it look like a flower." And another kind of "mussel powder bell"-"On the fifth day, mussel powder is put in the silk, and it is decorated with cotton, if you count the beads. Let children take it to absorb sweat. "

The contents of these bags have been changed several times, and their production has become increasingly exquisite, becoming a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.

When will Dragon Boat Festival become the world’s intangible heritage?

In November, 2005, South Korea applied for the Dragon Boat Festival. Although the Dragon Boat Festival in South Korea is not the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China now, it is also held on the Dragon Boat Festival, mainly for shaman sacrifices and song and dance performances.

However, as Chinese, she was still very excited when she saw this news, so China also attached importance to traditional festivals. So on November 15th, 2007, China designated the Dragon Boat Festival as a legal traditional festival, including Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

It was not until 2009 that UNESCO officially listed the Dragon Boat Festival in China as a member of the Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

What is wuhuang on Dragon Boat Festival?

There is a custom of eating "wuhuang" on the Dragon Boat Festival. Because the traditional theory holds that the Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which is the peak of yang in a year, eating "wuhuang" can make use of the power of the solar terms of the Dragon Boat Festival to get rid of cold and dampness, get rid of the five poisons, curb bad luck and enhance one’s energy.

Wuhuang refers to: Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, yellow rice wine and salted egg yolk.

The above is the little knowledge of this issue.

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