Dragon Boat Festival Holiday
Dear customers,
It's the annual Dragon Boat Festival holiday again, our office will be closed from June 3rd to 5th and we will resume business on June 6th (Monday).
Here I wish everyone a happy Dragon Boat Festival and all the best, thank you for your continued support and trust!
Guangzhou Jiangchuan Printing Equipment Co., Ltd.
If you are interested in learning about the Dragon Boat Festival, please read the following.
The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chongwu Festival, and the Tianzhong Festival, is a folk festival that integrates worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural celestial phenomena and evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in ancient times. At the Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong Qisu flew up to the center of the south, and was in the most "righteous" position throughout the year, just like the fifth line of "Book of Changes Qian Gua": "The flying dragon is in the sky". The Dragon Boat Festival is the auspicious day of "Flying Dragons in the Sky", and the culture of dragons and dragon boats has always run through the inheritance history of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Traditional folklore
The Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular folk festival in China. Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Due to the vast area and many stories and legends, not only many different festival names have been produced, but also various places. different customs. The Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when the flying dragon is in the sky. Sacrificing the dragon in the form of a dragon boat is an important ritual theme of the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom is still prevalent in the coastal areas of southern my country. In addition, a series of customs of the Dragon Boat Festival have also been derived from the animal and seasonal seasons. According to the number of yin and yang techniques, noon is yang, and heavy noon is zhiyang. The ancients regarded the Dragon Boat Festival at noon and the three noon days as the extremely young time, which can best ward off yin and evil spirits. The ancients also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as an auspicious year on the day of the summer solstice, and called it the "Dragon Flower Meeting". Summer is the time when Yin and Yang compete with each other. Summer is also a season to expel the plague. The midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is full of yang energy, and everything is flourishing. It is the most medicinal day of the year for herbal medicines. Due to the gathering of pure yang and righteousness in heaven and earth on the Dragon Boat Festival, it is most beneficial to ward off yin and evil spirits and the magical properties of herbal medicine on this day. Therefore, many Dragon Boat Festival customs handed down from ancient times have contents of warding off yin evil spirits and disease prevention, such as hanging wormwood, water at noon, and soaking in dragon boats. Customs such as water, tying five-color silk threads to ward off evil spirits, washing herbal water, and Kaoru Atractylodes cure diseases and prevent epidemics.
In the historical development and evolution of the Dragon Boat Festival, a variety of folk customs are mixed together, and there are differences in the content or details of customs across the country due to different regional cultures. The Dragon Boat Festival customs mainly include shoveling the dragon boat, offering sacrifices to dragons, picking herbs, hanging wormwood and calamus, worshiping gods and ancestors, washing herbal water, playing water at noon, immersing in dragon boat water, eating rice dumplings, putting paper kites, watching dragon boats, tying five-color silk threads, and smoking Atractylodes, sachets, etc. Dragon boat picking activities are very popular in the coastal areas of southern China. After it was spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people from all over the world and formed an international competition. The custom of eating rice dumplings at the Dragon Boat Festival has been prevalent in all parts of China since ancient times, and has become one of the most influential and wide-ranging folk eating customs of the Chinese nation. During the Dragon Boat Festival, traditional folk activities are performed, which can not only enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture well. The Dragon Boat Festival has a wide influence on the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.