China News Agency, Beijing, June 25: Question: Folklore scholars hope to prevent the epidemic prevention of the Dragon Boat Festival
China News Agency reporter Ying Ni
At the Dragon Boat Festival in 2020, in addition to tasting dumplings, the people may be able to appreciate another deep meaning. In a live broadcast on the 25th, many folk culture scholars agreed that the Dragon Boat Festival can be regarded as a health festival and an anti-epidemic festival. The current status of anti-epidemic is more meaningful and it is more worthy of serious attention to this festival.
The "Dialogue Folklore-Our Festival 2020 Dragon Boat Festival Culture" hosted by the Chinese Folk Literary Artists Association will be broadcast live online on the 25th.
The Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Ching Ming Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival are also known as the four traditional Chinese festivals. In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the "List of Representative Works of Human Intangible Cultural Heritage", and the Dragon Boat Festival became China's first selected non-legacy festival in the world.
In addition to eating dumplings and dragon boating, the tradition of picking medicine and warding off evil spirits for the Dragon Boat Festival has a long history. Since the pre-Qin period, the ancients believed that the fifth lunar month was a poisonous month, and the fifth day was a bad day. When the Dragon Boat Festival comes, it is mid-summer, the temperature is high, various mosquitoes are active, and it is easy to spread diseases. There is a popular saying: "Dragon Boat Festival, the weather is hot, five poisons wake up, restless."
The ancients hung calamus, inserted wormwood, and bathed with these herbs. During the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood, calamus and realgar are used together. The scene is as follows: According to the "Emperor Jingjingluo", "May 5th, the wine is stained with calamus, the door is filled with moxa, and the ear is applied with realgar. Eliminate poisonous insects."
Su Shi's "Liu Yao Ling" has the poem "Tigers are wrapped around arms, and the festival is also the Dragon Boat Festival". Ouyang Xiu's "Yujiaao" depicts the Song Dynasty's Dragon Boat Festival with "It is the season of Yulan, and the wine is beautiful and respectable." For thousands of years, Chinese people who have lived in dire straits have cleverly integrated the awareness of epidemic prevention and epidemic prevention into the festivals throughout the year and raised it to a ritualized and aesthetic national psychology.
In the live broadcast, Professor Lin Jifu of the Central University for Nationalities believes that no matter how the traditional festivals change, the essence and core cannot be changed. In his view, the core of the Dragon Boat Festival is to protect life and health, and expelling evil and sending evil spirits is its proper meaning. The Dragon Boat Festival is closely related to the use of Chinese herbal medicine by the ancient Chinese. This is also an excellent traditional Chinese medicine stone culture and deserves further study by professionals.
Traditional festivals are inevitably changing today. According to Xiao Fang, a professor at Beijing Normal University, a director of the Chinese Folk Literary Artists Association and the director of the Chinese Festival and Culture Research Center, traditional festivals are changing through inheritance, and they are inherited through change in order to have strong vitality. "Forms can vary with region and environment, but the ultimate goal of traditional festivals is still to deal with the relationship between man and nature, society and self."
He hoped that the people would have a deeper understanding of the Dragon Boat Festival while eating dumplings. This is not only a festival to protect life, but also a festival of cultural heritage, and thus a different festival.
Chen Lianshan, a professor in the Chinese Department of Peking University, bluntly stated that the Dragon Boat Festival is a hygienic holiday. It is more meaningful in the state of anti-epidemic today, and it is more worthy of the public to spend this festival seriously.
In fact, the anti-epidemic customs of the ancients may not be applicable today. However, the sense of ritual brought by the Dragon Boat Festival in summer and the stylized content of traditional festivals can remind people from the spiritual level that they should pay more attention to epidemic prevention, especially in the new era of global epidemics in 2020: wearing masks, washing hands, Keep a social distance of 1 meter.
Happy Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival should be more healthy. (Finish)