{"id":6189,"date":"2019-11-09T03:20:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-09T03:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/duan-wu-jie-dragon-boat-festival-2\/"},"modified":"2019-11-09T03:20:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-09T03:20:24","slug":"duan-wu-jie-dragon-boat-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/duan-wu-jie-dragon-boat-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"\u7aef\u5348\u8282 Dragon Boat Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The Dragon Boat Festival, the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, has had a history of more than 2,000 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#0008ff\">Qu Yuan (340-278 BC) \u5c48\u539f(q\u016b yu&aacute;n)\n<p>      <\/font><\/strong>T<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"284\" height=\"434\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd5762bed551.jpg\" style=\"WIDTH: 247px; HEIGHT: 346px\" alt=\"\u7aef\u5348\u8282 Dragon Boat Festival\" \/>here  are many legends a<em><\/em>bout the evolution of the festival, the most popular  of which is in commemoration of Qu Yuan (340-278 BC). Qu Yuan was  minister of the State of Chu and one of China&#8217;s earliest poets. In face  of great pressure from the powerful Qin State, he advocated enriching  the country and strengthening its military forces so as to fight against  the Qin. However, he was opposed by aristocrats headed by Zi Lan, and  later deposed and exiled by King Huai. In his exiled days, he still  cared much for his country and people and composed immortal poems  including Li Sao (The Lament), Tian Wen (Heavenly Questions) and Jiu Ge  (Nine Songs), which had far-reaching influences. In 278 BC, he heard the  news that Qin troops had finally co<em><\/em>nquered Chu&#8217;s capital, so he  finished his last piece Huai Sha (Embracing Sand) and plunged himself  into the Miluo River, clasping his arms to a large stone. The day  happened to be the 5th of the 5th mo<em><\/em>nth in the Chinese lunar calendar.  After his death, the people of Chu crowded to the bank of the river to  pay their respects to him. The fishermen sailed their boats up and down  the river to look for his body. People threw into the water zo<em><\/em>ngzi  (pyramid-shaped glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in reed or bamboo  leaves) and eggs to divert possible fish or shrimp from attacking his  body. An old doctor poured a jug of reaglar wine (Chinese liquor  seaso<em><\/em>ned with realgar) into the water, hoping to turn all aquatic beasts  drunk. That&#8217;s why people later followed the customs such as dragon boat  racing, eating zo<em><\/em>ngzi and drinking realgar wine on that day. <br \/>      &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#0008ff\">Dragon boat racing \u8d5b\u9f99\u821f (s&agrave;i l&oacute;ng zh\u014du)<br \/>      <\/font><\/strong><br \/> \n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd5762e27fb7.jpg\" alt=\"\u7aef\u5348\u8282 Dragon Boat Festival\" \/><br \/>      [Photo: baidu]<\/div>\n<p>      Dragon  boat racing is an indispensable part of the festival, held all over the  country. As the gun is fired, people will see racers in dragon-shaped  canoes pulling the oars harmo<em><\/em>niously and hurriedly, accompanied by rapid  drums, speeding toward their destination. Folk tales say the game  originates from the activities of seeking Qu Yuan&#8217;s body, but experts,  after painstaking and meticulous research, co<em><\/em>nclude that dragon boat  racing is a semi-religious, semi-entertaining program from the Warring  States Period (475-221 BC). In the following thousands of years, the  game spread to Japan, Vietnam and Britain as well as China&#8217;s Taiwan and  Hong Kong. Now dragon boat racing has developed into an aquatic sports  item which features both Chinese tradition and modern sporting spirit.  In 1980, it was listed into the state sports competition programs and  has since been held every year. The award is called &quot;Qu Yuan Cup.&quot;<br \/>      &nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong><font color=\"#0008ff\">Zo<em><\/em>ngzi \u7cbd\u5b50 (z&ograve;ng z\u01d0 )<\/font><\/strong><br \/>      <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"272\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/20191121_5dd5762f73767.jpg\" style=\"WIDTH: 261px; HEIGHT: 308px\" alt=\"\u7aef\u5348\u8282 Dragon Boat Festival\" \/><br \/>      Zo<em><\/em>ngzi  is an essential food of the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that  people ate them in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC). In early  times, it was o<em><\/em>nly glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in reed or other  plant leaves and tied with colored thread, but now the fillings are more  diversified, including jujube and bean paste, fresh meat, and ham and  egg yolk. If time permits, people will soak glutinous rice, wash reed  leaves and wrap up zo<em><\/em>ngzi themselves. Otherwise, they will go to shops  to buy whatever stuff they want. The custom of eating zo<em><\/em>ngzi is now  popular in North and South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian nations.\n<p>      On  Dragon Boat Festival, parents also need to dress their children up with  a perfume pouch. They first sew little bags with colorful silk cloth,  then fill the bags with perfumes or herbal medicines, and finally string  them with silk threads. The perfume pouch will be hung around the neck  or tied to the front of a garment as an ornament. They are said to be  able to ward off evil.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3557339540\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dragon Boat Festival, the 5th day of the 5th lunar month, has had a history of more than 2,000 years.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-traditional-chinese-festivals"],"views":148,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}