Should we say Happy Dragon Boat Festival or Good Health? The meaning of hanging eggs on Dragon Boat Festival
Every time a festival comes, relatives and friends will say Happy Holidays to each other and send their heartfelt blessings, but it is not so appropriate to say Happy on the Dragon Boat Festival. The days of each month are different, and suggest different do’s and don’ts. Doing things according to the lunar calendar will make your fortune smoother. Let’s go to Shuimo.com’s special topic for May to learn about the do’s and don’ts of each day in May.Should we say Happy Dragon Boat Festival or Good Health?The Dragon Boat Festival should mean good health.The Dragon Boat Festival is the beginning of summer (May). The fifth month of the lunar calendar is hot and humid with many viral diseases, and has always been considered an "evil month" by the ancients. The ancients described this period as "the five poisons are all out", snakes and insects multiply and are easy to bite people, people are prone to illness, and plagues are also easy to spread. Therefore, the main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, including drinking realgar wine, wearing sachets, hanging calamus and mugwort, tying five-colored silk threads, hanging pictures of the five poisons, and hanging images of Zhong Kui, all have the meaning of driving away disasters and plagues and praying for peace and health. The Dragon Boat Festival can be regarded as an important node for disease prevention in ancient times. This is why the blessing for the Dragon Boat Festival is "Happy Dragon Boat Festival" instead of "Happy Dragon Boat Festival". The meaning of hanging eggs on Dragon Boat FestivalThe Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar. According to legend, a long time ago, there was a plague god who would come down on the fifth day of the fifth month in the lunar calendar to harm people, mostly children. Many children would fall ill on the Dragon Boat Festival. The parents were very distressed about this and went to the Nuwa Temple to pray for talismans for their children's safety, hoping that their children would get better soon. After Nuwa learned about this, she went to find the God of Plague and asked him not to harm her children. The God of Plague was afraid of Nuwa's power but did not want to give up easily, so he asked Nuwa who her children were. Nuwa replied, "Every Dragon Boat Festival, I will let my children hang an egg bag on their chests. All children with egg bags are my children, and you are not allowed to harm them." Therefore, every Dragon Boat Festival, every child will hang an egg bag on his chest, with the purpose of warding off disasters and difficulties, turning misfortune into good fortune, and blessing peace. |
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