Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs across my country of eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats. Everyone knows that this ancient custom passed down from generation to generation is to commemorate Qu Yuan. But why commemorate Qu Yuan in this way? It turns out that there is such an interesting story circulating in Qu Yuan's hometown. After Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, one night, people in Qu Yuan's hometown suddenly dreamed that Qu Yuan was back. His Eguan Bodai was just like before his death, his face looked slightly sad and haggard. The villagers were very happy and rushed forward to salute him. Qu Yuan returned the gift and said with a smile: "Thank you for your kindness. The people of Chu State are so clear-cut in love and hate. If they don't forget me, I will die with no regrets." Putting aside the old relationship, everyone found that Qu Yuan's body was in poor condition. He went over and asked with concern: "Doctor Qu, have you eaten the rice we sent you?" "Thank you." Qu Yuan was grateful at first, and then sighed and said, "What a pity." The rice you gave me was all eaten by fish, shrimps, turtles and clams. After hearing this, the villagers were very anxious: "How can we prevent the fish and shrimps from eating it?" Qu Yuan thought for a while and said, "If rice is wrapped in Ruo leaves and made into horned millet with sharp corners, the Shui tribe will think it is water chestnut and will not dare to eat it." " During the Dragon Boat Festival the next year, the villagers wrapped a lot of corn millet with Ruo leaves and threw it into the river. But after the Dragon Boat Festival, Qu Yuan dreamed again and said: "I have eaten a lot of the corn millet you sent, but there are still some. Many of them were snatched away by the aquatic tribe. "Everyone asked him again: "What other good ideas are there? Qu Yuan said: "There is a way. You just need to add the dragon's mark on the boat where you put the horned millet." Because all the water tribes are under the control of the Dragon King, when the time comes, the drums and horns will sound and the paddles will flap. They think it is sent by the Dragon King, and they will no longer dare to snatch it. "Jiao Millet" is the current Zongzi. From then on, the customs of making Zongzi and rowing dragon boats during the Dragon Boat Festival spread from Qu Yuan's hometown to the whole country, from ancient times to today. During the period, he was a minister of King Huai of Chu. He advocated the promotion of talents, enriching the country and strengthening the army, and advocated uniting Qi to resist Qin. However, he was strongly opposed by the nobles Zilan and others. Qu Yuan was slandered and resigned, and was expelled from the capital and exiled to Yuan and Xiang. In exile, he wrote immortal poems such as "Li Sao", "Nine Songs" and "Heavenly Questions", which were concerned about the country and the people. In 278 BC, the Qin army captured the capital of Chu. Qu Yuan was heartbroken when he saw his homeland being invaded, but he could not bear to abandon his homeland. On May 5, after writing his last work "Huaisha", he bouldered into the Miluo River and died, composing the poem with his own life. A magnificent piece of patriotic music written by Liang Wu Yun during the Northern and Southern Dynasties in his "Xu Qi Xie Ji": "Qu Yuan, the great doctor of Chu, was slandered and died on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. He stored rice in a bamboo tube and poured water into it as a sacrifice, and ordered a boat to rescue him. " Later generations followed the custom of eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats during the Dragon Boat Festival. In the Quzi Temple on the banks of the Miluo River in Hunan, there is a couplet written by Guo Songtao of the Qing Dynasty that says: "Abandoning Ying Shi Gu Zhong, among the three hundred chapters, this is the only one. It has become elegant and has a new style; the sand has sunk here. Two thousand years later, only the sound of the beach remains the same as before. "It was Qu Yuan's "lonely loyalty" that won the support of his contemporaries and future generations. From then on, on the fifth day of May every year, there was the custom of dragon boat racing, eating rice dumplings, and drinking realgar wine to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. People I like the Dragon Boat Festival because of Qu Yuan. It was Qu Yuan who added a national spirit to this festival and gave it a long-lasting vitality. As a traditional Chinese cultural festival, we have a more solemn understanding and understanding of the eternal "Li Sao". ", the eternal Quzi, just like the annual "Dragon Boat Festival", leaves us with endless thoughts and aftertaste. With the arrival of Western festivals in China, we have more and more festivals, and traditional festivals are in people's lives. It has been downplayed or even cannibalized, especially among teenagers. The roses on Valentine's Day have already drowned out the fragrance of mugwort and calamus on the Dragon Boat Festival. Santa Claus took the Chinese passport and also snickered at Dr. Qu Yuan's Huai Jin Holding Yu. Despite their stubbornness, April Fools' Day in the West seems to be a fool. You can eat rice dumplings all year round, and dragon boat races are no longer exclusive to the Dragon Boat Festival. A certain country in Asia actually declared the Dragon Boat Festival as a cultural heritage to the United Nations. , making people wonder whether Qu Yuan also obtained a green card and immigrated abroad. The newspaper reported that Koreans "snatched" the "Dragon Boat Festival Chinese domain name" and someone spent hundreds of thousands of dollars to buy it back; South Korea's "Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival". It is so sad that a traditional Chinese festival was successfully declared a world intangible cultural heritage and allowed to be registered by other countries! It caused an uproar among the Chinese people.
In fact, the Dragon Boat Festival is melted in the blood of us Chinese. Our ancestors and we first bathed in a meter of sunshine and drank a river of water. The Miluo River is the cultural blood flowing in our blood vessels, and it cannot be diluted no matter what. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, the dispute between the surnames "Wu" and "Qu" during the Dragon Boat Festival has once again drawn people's attention. According to "Modern Express" on May 23, the Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival with "Wu Zixu's Origin Theory" entered the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage masterpieces. This year, Suzhou will officially hold a large-scale memorial ceremony for Wu Zixu. Is the Dragon Boat Festival commemorating the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, or is it to commemorate Wu Zixu, a great official of the Wu Kingdom during the Spring and Autumn Period? Regarding the controversy over the "Dragon Boat Festival origin theory", what have these people been doing? For so long, no one has paid attention to the surname issue of the Dragon Boat Festival. If the Koreans hadn't "snatched" the "Dragon Boat Festival Chinese domain name", the Chinese would still be sleeping. Bar? Local governments that had good connections are now arguing endlessly and enjoying it. Fighting over and over again, is this an honor? In the author's opinion, it is a shame and a betrayal of modern civilization. If we have the energy to fight for a title, why don’t we do more practical things to protect those ancient buildings that are in urgent need of repair and maintenance? Why not carry forward Qu Yuan’s patriotism spirit and discover from it some information that will help the development of today’s world? Cultural connotation? . Starting from this year, June 10th every year will be the National Cultural Heritage Day. The government hopes that by establishing "Cultural Heritage Day", the protection of cultural heritage will be comprehensively strengthened. The protection of cultural heritage is not only related to the long history of our nation, but also related to how our nation moves towards the future. We cannot let Qu Yuan "go abroad" to get a green card again. We also cannot allow the "Mid-Autumn Festival" to travel to other countries. Let alone allow "Qingming Festival" people to settle in other countries. This is the best way to commemorate the festival, and this is the best way to protect the cultural traditions of our ancient civilization.
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