What are the taboos of Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is the first of the nine poisons, so people all over the country have different taboo customs and methods to lift the taboo of Dragon Boat Festival. To this end, I recommend some knowledge about the taboos of the Dragon Boat Festival for you. Welcome to refer to.

First, the taboo items of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, avoid swimming

Swimming is forbidden in some places on this day, especially in places where people drown, because people think that the "drowning ghost" on the Dragon Boat Festival is the most fierce, and they need to find a double "back to the sun". So there is the custom of throwing zongzi into the river for them to share and avoiding making zongzi.

2, children wear sachets to avoid loss.

In the north, children have the custom of wearing sachets. You can't lose the sachet worn by children. It is said that if the child loses the sachet, there will be great disaster within one year. After the Dragon Boat Festival, children should throw sachets into the water to avoid fire.

Step 3 avoid evil days

Because May is an "evil month" and the fifth day is an unlucky day, there is a custom of "hiding in the afternoon" on this day, that is, sending babies under one year old to grandma's house to hide from disasters.

Step 4 avoid the five poisons

People believe that May is the time when five poisons (snakes, centipedes, scorpions, lizards and toads) appear. Folk songs say, "Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot, waking up" non-toxic "is not peaceful." The purpose of driving away the five poisons during the Dragon Boat Festival is to remind people to prevent harm and disease. Every Dragon Boat Festival, people should use various methods to prevent the harm of the five poisons. Generally, a map of five poisons is posted in the house, five poisons are printed on red paper, and then five needles are stuck on the five poisons, that is, the poisons are stabbed to death, and they can no longer be rampant. This is a witchcraft legacy to ward off evil spirits. People also embroider five poisons on clothes and decorate them with five poisons patterns, all of which are meant to drive them away. In some places, people cut the five poisons into images (paper-cut) with colored paper, or stick them on doors, windows and walls. Put it on the kang or tie it to the child's arm to avoid all kinds of poison.

Second, why is the Dragon Boat Festival taboo?

In the pre-Qin period, it was generally believed that May was a poisonous month and the fifth was an evil day. According to legend, this day is evil, and the five poisons came out together. According to the Book of Rites, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the orchid bath in the Zhou Dynasty. Midsummer in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals stipulates that people should abstain from sex and fast in May. "Xia Zheng Xiao" records: "Store medicine this day to get rid of poisonous gas." It is recorded in "Da Dai Li" that "the orchid is kept as a bath on May 5", which is also the legend that the fifth day is the taboo day for bathing to exorcise evil spirits.

The famous Meng Changjun in Historical Records and Biography of Meng Changjun was born on May 5th. His father asked his mother not to have him, thinking that "a child born in May is longer than a family, which is not good for parents." "Custom Pass" was lost. "It is said that on May 5th, a child was born, and the male harmed his father and the female harmed his mother". Wang Chong, the author of Lun Heng, also described: "The first month and May are taboos; Kill your father and your mother in May of the first month. "

Wang Zhene, a general of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was born on the fifth day of May. His grandfather named him "Zhen Xie". Evonne and Song Huizong were born on the fifth day of May, and were fostered outside the palace since childhood.

It can be seen that it is a common phenomenon to regard the fifth day of May as an evil day in ancient times. It can be seen that this day has been an unlucky day since the pre-Qin period. In this way, it is logical to insert calamus and mugwort leaves to exorcise ghosts, smoke atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica and drink realgar wine to avoid the epidemic on this day. Moreover, people also avoid the taboo of "Dragon Boat Festival" and call it "Dragon Boat Festival".

Third, the taboo of nine poisonous days of Dragon Boat Festival

1, blade day, gas attack.

This day is the fifth day of May, from the meteorological point of view of the lunar calendar, it is from summer to around, so it is also the day with the highest yang in a year; This is also a real sheep blade day. In this fifth lunar month, the blade is fierce. It turned out to be the so-called "poison month", with a total of "nine poison days". The Dragon Boat Festival is the first of the "nine poisons", so it is called "poison day". From the perspective of the five elements, any kind of five elements that are too prosperous or too weak will form evil spirits, which will threaten and harm the natural climate or personal health; Besides, this season is also a time when poisonous insects and pests are rampant; Therefore, on this day, you should insert wormwood, peach skills and calamus on the door to exorcise ghosts; Smoke atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica, drink realgar wine, or spray realgar wine on children to drive away pests and protect health.

2. On the day of sacrifice, Yin Qi was injured.

One of the most important and common contents of Dragon Boat Festival is offering sacrifices to ancestors. They not only offered sacrifices to Qu Yuan, a poet who committed suicide by throwing himself into the river, but also offered sacrifices to loyal minister Wu Zixu and filial daughter Cao E in some places. On this day, many zongzi are wrapped and then thrown into the river, just like going to the grave for the dead, and the rest are enjoyed by themselves. Therefore, zongzi is actually a sacrifice. Sadness is inevitable when offering sacrifices, so this day, like Tomb-Sweeping Day, artificially creates a thick yin, and these yin and yang, like Yang, will also hurt people who are physically and mentally weak; Such as depression, bad mood, physical pain and so on. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is not suitable for anything, let alone taking office, moving, starting work, opening business, getting married, celebrating and other festive activities. It is also not suitable for participating in recreational activities. It is the right choice to honor your parents and reunite with your family.

3, nine poisons, no sex life.

May is the month of Nine Poisons, and the Dragon Boat Festival is the first day of Nine Poisons. Poisonous gas attacks the body, and evil spirits are powerful. It is also said that it is the day of coitus between heaven and earth, which is very unsuitable for men and women to have sex. Therefore, the ancients said that prohibiting sexual intercourse is not superstition, but a very natural scientific truth. Because when the weather is wrong, it will inevitably affect people's body and mind, so if you have sex in nine poisonous days, you must be infected with evil spirits. The ancients were very clever. In order to prevent some people from lusting after sexual desire, they can't control themselves and do taboos. Therefore, this day is designated as "Mother's Day". What is "mothering"? Mothering relatives refer to married women returning to their parents' homes to visit their families. It is said that from the first day of May to the fifth day of May, the woman will stay at her parents' home and the husband and wife will be separated, thus objectively eliminating the condition of careless sexual intercourse and ensuring the health of the parties. At the same time, the Dragon Boat Festival is not suitable for having children (just bear it for a few more days). Next is the Eight Poisonous Days, which basically covers the whole May of the lunar calendar. Therefore, in some places, sexual intercourse is forbidden throughout May to avoid evil spirits.

Four, the Dragon Boat Festival taboo all over the country

Peiping

It is said that drilling well water is avoided in Beiping Dragon Boat Festival, and it is often pre-pumped before the festival, in order to avoid well poisoning. On Dragon Boat Festival, street vendors also sell cherry mulberries. It is said that they eat cherry mulberries on the Dragon Boat Festival and don't eat flies by mistake all year round. "Five Poison Cakes", which are cakes decorated with five poisonous insect patterns, are sold in various food stores. Luanxian county lets men and women in-laws give gifts to each other on the Dragon Boat Festival. On the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhao County, the local government will hold a banquet in the south of the city, inviting the literati in the city to feast and compose poems, which is called "stepping on the willow".

Shandong Province

Zouping county Dragon Boat Festival, cough needs a drink. It is said that it can ward off evil spirits. Rizhao Dragon Boat Festival wraps seven colors of thread around children, and it will take them until the first rain after the festival before they are untied and thrown into the rain. On the Dragon Boat Festival in Linqing County, boys under seven wear symbols (necklaces made of wheat barnyard grass), girls wear pomegranate flowers, and they also wear yellow shoes made by their mothers, and draw five kinds of poisonous insects on the vamps with a brush. It means killing five kinds of poisonous insects with Qu Yuan's ink. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, Jimo washes his face with dew.

Shanxi province

On the Dragon Boat Festival in Xiezhou, men and women wear mugwort leaves, which is called "expelling diseases", while young children tie a hundred ropes around their necks. It is said that this is "tying dragons for Qu Yuan". During the Dragon Boat Festival in the Western Zhou Dynasty, villages would offer sacrifices to the Dragon King and hang paper in the fields. The Dragon Boat Festival in Huairen County is also called "Zhumen". The Dragon Boat Festival in Dingxiang County requires students to give gifts to their teachers. Lu 'an Mansion uses steamed dumplings made of wheat flour, called "white dumplings", and presents them to each other together with zongzi.

Shanxi(Province)

On the Dragon Boat Festival in Xing 'an League, local officials lead their subordinates to watch the game, which is called "stepping on a stone". At the Dragon Boat Festival in Xingping County, a small corn is sewn with silk, and a small doll is sewn below it, which is called "playing with dolls". The Dragon Boat Festival in Tongguan County is called "town disease", and there are Pu Ai and paper cows sticking to the door.

Gansu province

Picking roses on Dragon Boat Festival in Jingning area is mainly based on honey pickling. Zhenyuan county presented a fragrant fan, a Luo Qi, a towel handkerchief and a Ai Hu to the newlyweds during the Dragon Boat Festival. Children also invite their fathers and brothers to entertain their teachers, which is called "enjoying the festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhang Xi 'an County, the shepherd boy worships the mountain gods. Accumulated salary mountain, chicken calls before burning, commonly known as "burning mountain"

Jiangsu Province

During the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiading County, people, rich or poor, have to buy stone fish (commonly known as mandarin fish) to cook. There is also a saying in Yizheng County, "When pants, buy yellow croaker". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Nanjing, families use a box of clear water, plus a little realgar and goose eye money. The whole family washes their eyes with this kind of water, which is called "breaking the eyes of fire". It is said that it can protect them from eye diseases for a year. There is a dragon boat show in Wujin at night. In the evening, small lanterns are hung around the dragon boat, and flutes and drums sing harmoniously.

Sichuan Province

Shizhu has the custom of "going out during the Dragon Boat Festival". Four people use two bamboo poles to lift the wide table covered with red carpet. A Taoist priest riding a tiger weaves bamboo sticks on the carpet. Beating gongs and drums, marching in the street. In ancient times, there was a custom of "typing" on the Dragon Boat Festival in western Sichuan. On that day, Chengdu people bought plums and threw them in the southeast corner of the city, attracting tens of thousands of spectators. In the 21st year of Guangxu (1895), this custom stopped because of the sudden conflict between Touli and foreign missionaries. Leshan, Xinjin and other places also hold grand commodity fairs during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Xijiang province

Students from rural schools in Tonglu County gave their teachers a gift on the Dragon Boat Festival, which was called "Remembrance". The doctor collects medicine at noon, and it is said that the doctor is in heaven that day.

Jiangxi province

Jianchang Prefecture takes a bath with herbal water at noon to prevent scabies, and Xinchang County drinks realgar cinnabar wine, which is called "opening eyes".

Hubei province

In Bahe Town, Huanggang County, people welcome Nuo people on the Dragon Boat Festival and use tattoos of corollas and golden bells to drive away the epidemic. Dragon boat race in Yichang county, especially on May 13, 14 and 15. May 15, also known as "Daduanyang", people eat zongzi and drink Pu wine, just like the Dragon Boat Festival.

Hunan province

On the Dragon Boat Festival in Youxian County, rich pregnant women eat with flowers, poor people prepare chicken wine, and collect money with bamboo clips in front of the dragon boat faucet to pray for safe production. The government of Yuezhou regards this game as a disaster and a disease. Also known as "sending plague", when the grass boat comes to flood.

Fujian Province

Fuzhou Dragon Boat Festival is an old custom, so the daughter-in-law gives shroud, shoes and socks, zongzi and fans to her in-laws. In Jianyang County, 5th is the King Day of Sun-drying capsules, and people make sauces on this day. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Shanghang County, the boat was tied with reeds and a dragon-shaped play was performed at the water's edge, which was called dragon boat race. After the Dragon Boat Race in Xianyou County, paper was presented at Huxiao Beach to commemorate Qi Jiguang's drowning here during Jiajing period. Before Shao Wufu's Dragon Boat Festival, women used crimson yarn as a bag. Five-color velvet is the winning surface, and the colored thread is tied. The girl hung upside down on her back and was called "Dou Niang".

Five, the Dragon Boat Festival to lift the taboo method

1, wear sachets to ward off evil spirits and spread love.

Wearing sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival is traditionally considered to have the effect of exorcising evil spirits and plagues. In fact, cinnabar, wormwood leaves, realgar, fragrant medicine and pomegranate flowers are put in the sachet, which gives off a pleasant fragrance and is the nemesis of mosquitoes, so it has the function of expelling evil spirits and plagues. The sachets are wrapped in silk and then tied with five-color silk threads to make various shapes and styles. Beautiful women can also send sachets of various scents to their loved ones to express their love.

2. Wear colorful bracelets and pray for love and good luck.

Five-color lines are the most commonly used auspicious things. The five-color silk thread, namely, green, red, white, black and yellow, respectively represents the five elements of gold, water, wood, fire and earth and the five directions of east, west, south, north and middle. The five-color rope bracelet has the effect of five-color acacia. Men and women who want to bid farewell to singles as soon as possible can wear five-color rope bracelets on their wrists or ankles, boys wear left hands or left feet, and girls wear right hands or right feet, which can increase popularity, inspire people and help attract good marriages. It will have a better effect if you wear it in the moonlight on the 15th, 16th and 17th.

3, travel together, get rid of illness and adjust your heart.

In the old society, on the Duanyang Festival, men, women and children put on new clothes and went to the fields in the mountains for a day. In the evening, they bathe in fragrant herbs or leaves such as fried cattail and wormwood to exorcise evil spirits, which is called "wandering all diseases" and "washing all diseases". This can eliminate evil spirits and make them safe and healthy for a year. In modern times, the pressure of study and work often makes the brain nervous. During the Dragon Boat Festival, you can choose appropriate travel and relaxation, just to give full play. Playing in the suburbs and tasting some special foods can not only help you get rid of your illness, but also make you feel comfortable, reduce your negative energy and naturally bring good luck.

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a good way to increase the gas field.

Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival has many good meanings, such as "Zongzi" and "Neutron", which means hitting the target with one arrow, winning the male, seeking for a child, and also means "high school", which will improve your academic examination. Therefore, eating zongzi well during the Dragon Boat Festival will also bring good luck.

Dragon Boat Festival releases sacrifices to morality and prays for well-being.

If there are patients at home, they can be released during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is more effective than usual.

6. Wearing a gourd on the Dragon Boat Festival turns it into good luck for Jinafu.

Hulu, which means "Fulu", has the feng shui function of accepting blessings. The shape of the gourd seems to be Tai Chi Yin and Yang, which can control the three realms. Therefore, in geomantic omen, it also has the function of eliminating evil spirits. During the Dragon Boat Festival, put a small gourd mascot on your body to bring you good luck.

7. Dragon Boat Festival is a good opportunity to ward off evil spirits.

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional day to ward off evil spirits. Thousands of years later, you have a strong idea. Therefore, if you have bad luck and poor health recently, you can take the Dragon Boat Festival as an opportunity to hang a mahogany mascot on the door to ward off evil spirits, get rid of the bad luck in the past and usher in good luck.

8. It's a good sign to insert Ai in Dragon Boat Festival.

In folk customs, "willow inserted in Qingming Festival, wormwood inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". Wormwood and calamus are inserted in the door, and made into the shape of an adult or a tiger, which is called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. They can repel malaria and drive away evil spirits. There is also the custom of eating five poison cakes, which symbolizes the good omen of preventing villains, health and good luck.

9. Wear the Buddha to ward off evil spirits and keep safe at noon.

Dragon Boat Festival is an important day to ward off evil spirits in geomantic omen. Travel on the same day should be far away from hospitals, funeral homes and other places. These places often have severe Yin Qi, and people in severe places in Yin Qi are easy to get sick. If the fortune is not smooth before, people in poor health can wear their own Buddha to ward off evil spirits and turn evil into safety!

10, going back to my parents' house on Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival is harmful to health, so sexual intercourse is forbidden. The best way to avoid disaster is for a woman to return to her parents.

Of course, according to local customs, there are many taboos about the Dragon Boat Festival. For example, the Dragon Boat Festival is not suitable for having children (please note that the sister paper of caesarean section must avoid the Dragon Boat Festival).