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+ boat-dragons - - - - - - The festival of the boat-dragons or duān wǔ jíe (端午節) is a Chinese festival marking the entry in heats of the be and the season of the epidemic S. It takes place the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, fine May or beginning June in the Gregorian Calendrier (mobile date). The purpose of the many practices which are associated there are to entreat the demons of the diseases by: - *la prophylactic consumption of sulfur Vin ( xióng huáng jiǔ , 雄黃酒) - in loss of favor nowadays because one became aware perhaps that it did as many victims as the infectious illness than it was to avoid; - *la clothes industry of small fabric sachets ( xiāng bāo 香包) filled with a supposed powder to protect from the diseases the child who carries it to the neck; - *la decoration of the main door with protective grasses ( chāng pú , 菖蒲, and armoise, ài cǎo , 艾草) and the effigy of a god destroyer of demons, zhōng kuí (鍾馗). - - The tradition wants that this day, when the sun arrives at the zenith, energy yang (陽) (that of the couple yin-yang which is associated with heat and the light) its apogee reaches. It is, says one, the only moment of the year when one can easily make hold a egg upright on his point, play to which were exerted with more or less happiness of the generations of Chinese children. Water drawn from the puit at this time precise would be also equipped with magic powers. - - But the habit most remarkable remainder races of boats in form of dragon mûs by a team of oarsmen. The legend which reports the origin of this habit makes it go up well before the empire, at the time of the Royaumes combatants (戰國時代). A Minister for the king of Chu (楚國), qu Yuan (屈原), poet at his hours (one knows indeed poems which are allotted to him), would have thrown oneself in the river Milo (汨羅江) of spite to see its neglected councils and its devotion to the country questioned. It would thus have drowned, but to be able at least to fish out its intact corpse, the residents which held it in great regard would have thrown in the water of the rice packed in sheets of bamboo to hold in respect fish. One still nowadays eats these stuffed sheets of bamboo, called Zongzi (粽子), to celebrate the festival. - - It is thought in general that the habit of the races of boats dragons is originating in the south of the Chang Jiang (長江), and that the legend of qu Yuan reflects the fact that in the beginning the drowning of one or several participants was necessary so that the rite obtains the anticipated result. - - The Legend of the white snake , reporting the history of a Snake having taken human form to marry an young man, is also associated with this festival because the most dramatic events of the account proceed this day. Spectacles inspired of this legend are often played fifth during the day of the fifth month. - - ===Articles connexes=== - * Chinese Calendar - * Chinese traditional Religion - * Legend of the white snake - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Zh-classical: 端午 - Zh-min-nan: Gō͘-ji̍t-cheh

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