Dragon Boat Festival Custom In Niucheng: Children Wear Five Poison Shoes
The Dragon Boat Festival It's ancient in China tradition The Dragon Boat Festival has always been a custom among Chinese people. At the meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, on September 30, 2009, it was decided that China's Dragon Boat Festival was successfully included in the List of Representative Works of the World Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In Xingtai, before the Dragon Boat Festival every year, people prepare zongzi for children Five Poison Shoes 。
Dragon Boat Festival is a festival
When it comes to Dragon Boat Festival, people's first reaction is that they should eat traditional Chinese rice-pudding In fact, there are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which has a very rich cultural connotation. In addition to eating rice dumplings, dragon boat riding and wearing sachets are also indispensable items in the Dragon Boat Festival. But now, dragon boat riding is rarely seen in the north. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, the reporter found a lot of reed leaves and glutinous rice on the market in Xingtai, all prepared for the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival. Many citizens said that the Dragon Boat Festival is about eating rice dumplings, mainly because of commemorating Qu Yuan.
What cultural connotation does the Dragon Boat Festival contain? Is Xingtai's Dragon Boat Festival custom different from other places? The reporter interviewed Zhang Heling, a member of China Folk Artists Association and China Calligraphers Association. "The Dragon Boat Festival is not only a traditional folk festival in China, but also a festival. Duan means the beginning. The Dragon Boat Festival means that summer has come, and all kinds of small animals and insects are also active. People in ancient times were afraid of these small insects getting into people's bodies, so they used to wear sachets, drink realgar wine and other ways to drive away diseases." Zhang Heling said.
According to teacher Zhang Heling, the Dragon Boat Festival has a history of thousands of years and is the crystallization of the wisdom of ancient Chinese people. People usually wear sachets, drink realgar wine, insert wormwood leaves and wear five poison shoes for children on the Dragon Boat Festival. "Snakes, scorpions, geckos, toads and centipedes are five kinds of poisons that people generally believe. Wearing five poison shoes for children is to keep these five poisons away". Both wearing five poison shoes and incense bags are for curing diseases and praying for peace. Now Xingtai still has the custom of wearing five poison shoes for children.
It should be said that the Dragon Boat Festival is rich in content, but many customs are no longer. "In the past, people used to drink realgar wine to cure diseases. Especially in ancient times, people lived in bungalows with earth huts. In summer, there were many kinds of small insects. Now these conditions no longer exist, so there is basically no realgar wine to drink." Zhang Heling said that there was another legend about the Dragon Boat Festival. Qu Yuan, a doctor of the State of Chu, threw himself into the Miluo River on May 5, The local people searched for Qu Yuan's body in the Miluo River, but they did not find it for a long time. People were afraid that the Shui people in the water would eat Qu Yuan's body, so they threw all kinds of food into the river.
Later, someone dreamt that Qu Yuan said that the food people threw into the river was eaten by the Shui nationality, and he could not eat anything. He asked people to wrap the food into a diamond shape and then throw it into the water. In this way, the Shui nationality would stop eating when they saw that the diamond shaped food was not easy to digest. This was the earliest rice dumplings. There was also a poisonous dragon in the river. Later, a doctor poured realgar wine into the river, and the body of the poisonous dragon floated up the next day. Gradually people paddled in the water like Jackie Chan, so that the water people in the river would not dare to approach Qu Yuan if they thought there were dragons.
Later, on the fifth day of May every year, there was the custom of dragon boat race, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine; In memory of patriotic poet Qu Yuan. In fact, the Dragon Boat Festival already existed before the commemoration of Qu Yuan.
Xingtai Dragon Boat Festival Eating Zongzi and Wearing Five Poison Shoes
The custom of dragon boating originated in commemorating Qu Yuan, but the geographical conditions in the north are very different from those in the south, and gradually only the custom of eating rice dumplings is preserved. Zongzi is usually made of zongzi leaves and glutinous rice. Nowadays, in Xingtai area, zongzi is mainly made of reed leaves, glutinous rice, dates, some peanuts, raisins, and it is said that meat is mixed into zongzi, but it is rarely seen now.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, children wear five poison shoes as a symbol to drive away poisonous insects. The five poison shoes generally use red cloth as the upper, and some places use green satin as the upper. A large toad head is embroidered on the top of the upper, and another image of centipede, scorpion, gecko, snake and poisonous insects is embroidered on the upper. Nowadays, five poison shoes are generally sold in the market, and there are fewer and fewer people who make five poison shoes for children themselves.
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