Why do you tie colorful lines on the Dragon Boat Festival? Why are you hanging gourds?

Multicolored rope should be composed of blue, white, red, black and yellow lines representing the five elements, symbolizing east, west, south, north and middle respectively, which means wishing health and longevity. The zongzi, gourd, zodiac, Nianying, purse, zodiac wallet, family portrait, lucky money and gold ingot in the pendant all represent the meaning of auspiciousness, longevity and well-being.

On the day of Dragon Boat Festival, parents should twist five kinds of colorful threads into beautiful ropes, and tie colorful threads around their children's necks, wrists and ankles before the sun comes out on the Dragon Boat Festival. It is best to tie up the children when they are asleep to prevent them from talking.

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The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is a festival founded by the ancestors of Baiyue in ancient times to worship their ancestors. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5th and committed suicide. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui.

Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancestors of Baiyue in the south who chose "Dragon Ascending to Heaven" as an auspicious day to worship the ancestors of the Dragon, and injected the seasonal fashion of "getting rid of diseases and epidemic prevention" in summer. Dragon Boat Festival is considered as an "evil moon day", which originated in the northern part of the Central Plains to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures. The formation of the Dragon Boat Festival custom can be said to be the product of the integration of North and South customs.

Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it.

In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.

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