The origin of Dragon Boat Festival and what is the best flower for Dragon Boat Festival?

The 2018 Dragon Boat Festival is coming tomorrow. Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival to commemorate the ancient patriotic poet qu Yuan. According to the Records of the Age of Jing and Chu, due to the climbing in mid-summer, Shunyang is on the top, and May is midsummer, and its first afternoon is the day of fine weather in Shunyang, so the fifth day of May is also known as the "Dragon Boat Festival". During the festive season, everyone will visit their relatives and friends, and hand gifts are always brought by everyone. Dragon Boat Festival is usually the first choice of delicious zongzi, but in fact, Dragon Boat Festival can also send flowers to express best wishes to relatives and friends, so what flowers are appropriate for Dragon Boat Festival? The editor of Hua Cao Le came to tell you.

The origin of Dragon Boat Festival and what is the best flower for Dragon Boat Festival?

What is the best flower for Dragon Boat Festival?

One: calamus. Acorus calamus is a flower representing the Dragon Boat Festival, which has the custom of calamus and moxa leaves inserted on every door, which can ward off evil spirits and drive away pain. The flower language of Acorus calamus is to avoid evil and prevent disasters. On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, calamus flowers are very suitable for giving away some friends who have not been in good luck recently.

Two: dance grass. The leaves of dancing grass have the characteristics of natural dance, and it is the only plant in nature that can react according to sound. In the environment of strong light at room temperature and no wind and rain, the two side leaflets of dancing grass will keep swinging. Within half a minute, each leaf can complete an oval movement, and after each leaf rotates up to 180 degrees, it bounces back to its original place, and then dances again.

Three: Dragon boat flower. Dragon Boat Flower is the national flower of Myanmar. It is said that when the dragon boat flowers are not in bloom, they are very much like tiny hairpins that pierce the blue sky. After opening, the four petals spread out into a cross. In ancient times, the cross represented a spell to ward off evil spirits and exorcise evil spirits and distemper. Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival every year, in order to ward off evil spirits and exorcise demons, remove the disease and get good luck, they inserted the flower together with calamus and moxa grass on the dragon boat. Over time, it was called the dragon boat flower.

The Origin of Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival originally held a totem festival for the tribes who worshipped dragon totems in the ancient Baiyue area (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south). Before the Spring and Autumn period in Baiyue, there was the custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu (now Hubei) in the warring States period, killed himself by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The rulers took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate qu Yuan in order to establish a patriotic label. Some areas also commemorated Wu Zixu and Cao E.

Dragon Boat Festival is the first non-heritage festival in the world in China, which was designated as a legal holiday in 2008 along with Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The original holidays are New Year's Day, Spring Festival, International Labour Day and National Day, of which only the Spring Festival is a traditional holiday. The selection of Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival has greatly increased the proportion of traditional festivals, and the intention of revitalizing traditional culture is very clear.

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