“May 5, Dragon Boat Festival. Eat zongzi and race dragon boats.” Once a year, the Dragon Boat Festival again. Like a nation’s spiritual home, whether it is “Qu Zi in the ancient, Chu township customs remain”, or “color line light wrapped ruby arm, small character skew hanging green cloud lock”, the Dragon Boat Festival is always full of literary feelings and folk interests.
Dragon Boat Festival
Qu Yuan’s love for the country is immortal
“The road is long, I will be up and down and seek” Qu Yuan not only in the history of literature set up a monument more inspired the Chinese people to construct their own spiritual home.
Dragon Boat Festival
It is the first world intangible Heritage Festival in China
In September 2009, the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival was officially reviewed and approved by UNESCO to be included in the World intangible Cultural Heritage, becoming the first Chinese festival to be included in the World intangible Cultural Heritage. The Dragon Boat Festival culture has been passed down for thousands of years and has had a wide influence all over the world.
Dragon Boat Festival
It is the passion and courage of hundreds of words
“Outcolor boat, see the dragon boat in pairs, wave heart hair” because of not giving up a generation of wise minister Qu Yuan into the river died many people rowing to catch up to save this is the origin of dragon boat racing. It is also the people’s most passionate folk sports and entertainment projects, dragon boat racing needs close cooperation, rowing together to open the ship, only the united people run forward, in order to reach the end of the fastest, during the process, to express everyone positive, the champion of the spirit of struggle.
Dragon Boat Festival
Is sweet can not be lost in the missing
“Understand Zongzi is thinking the Dragon Boat Festival, Huai Shamo ask Miluo” Zongzi also called “millet” “Zongzi 籺” “tube Zongzi” as the representative of the Dragon Boat Festival food, has a long history, a variety of patterns, due to different eating habits, zongzi formed a north-south flavor, from the stuffing, the north has a package of jujube Beijing jujube zongzi; In the south, there are mung beans, pork belly, bean paste, eight treasures, ham, mushroom, egg yolk and other fillings, which are represented by Guangdong salted meat zongzi and Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi.
Dragon Boat Festival
A blessing to your health and peace
“It is bathing orchid season movement” Dragon Boat Festival when the midsummer, is the season of skin diseases, and Dragon Boat Festival day is the strongest herb property in the year, the herbal treatment of skin diseases, to the most effective.
Dragon Boat Festival
It is the relentless pursuit of light and beauty
On this day of the Dragon Boat Festival, people will hang wormwood and calamus at the door or at home, thinking that they have the effect of exorcizing evil, and sometimes use wormwood leaves to fumigate the room, which is used to drive away mosquitoes and diseases and prevent the spread of diseases.
Drinking realgar wine, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people in some places will drink realgar wine as a custom, believing that drinking realgar wine can protect the health and pray for peace and well-being on this special day.
Dragon Boat Festival
Is the blessing of the Chinese spirit lasting
“Fight Qiao to lose young, jade wrist color silk double knot” wearing colorful rope, in traditional Chinese culture, the symbol of five squares and five lines of five colors “green, red, white, black, yellow” is regarded as auspicious color, colorful rope is woven by five colors of silk, representing luck and blessings.
The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is not only the intangible cultural heritage of the world, but also carries rich spiritual connotation and cultural value: a cultural feast integrating the spirit of patriotism, the philosophical thought of the unity of heaven and man, and the collective thought of unity and cooperation.