When I woke up, it was the fifth day of the fifth month of the fourth year of Zhongping.

The most important thing for Ou Xing today is to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

Passing the Dragon Boat Festival is an established matter in the spiritual and cultural construction work plan of Oujiachong, and it is very important. According to the logic of the P Society, it can effectively improve the cohesion of the whole family.

The Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty was an important period for the evolution of traditional folk customs during the Dragon Boat Festival.

During this period, in the minds of the broad masses of the people, the Dragon Boat Festival gradually began to transition from a day of great evil to a good day.

By the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the days are getting longer, the nights are getting shorter, and the temperature is gradually rising. And because of the increase in rainfall, the weather is getting wetter and wetter.

As a result of the combination of dampness and heat, poisonous insects multiply and germs breed, and the probability of people getting infected and sick increases significantly. This is extremely dangerous and even fatal in the era of low productivity and underdeveloped medical and health standards.

Cao Apu's wife Bian and sons Cao Pi and Cao Chong all died in May.

The nobles with relatively good living conditions are still like this, and the survival of ordinary people can be imagined. As a result, May was considered by the ancestors to be the month of death and life when yin and yang competed, and it was extremely vicious.

And the fifth day of the fifth month of May is the most vicious day in the vicious month.

It is precisely because of this that many of the early Dragon Boat Festival folk customs were very evil.

Among these evil folk customs, the most terrifying is infanticide and abandonment.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, the birth of an unknown child was a social and cultural taboo that existed from the Warring States period to the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms.

This point is recorded by the Eastern Han Dynasty thinker Wang Chong, whose book "On Balance" Zeng Yun: "The son of May killed his father and mother. ”

Ying Shao, a famous scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty, also wrote in his book "Customs and Customs": "When a son is born on May 5, the man harms the father and the daughter harms the mother. ”

Under fear, the killing and abandonment of babies born on the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month of the fifth month has become a common horror folklore.

If a baby is born on the fifth day of the fifth month of May and escapes the catastrophe, it can even become a major news in the history books. For example, Meng Weijun Tianwen during the Warring States Period, and Hu Guang, an important minister in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

"Historical Records: The Biography of Meng Yanjun" once stated that Meng Yanjun Tian Wen was born on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, and his father Tian Ying believed: "The May child, who grows up with the household, will not be good for his parents." "Order Tian Wen's mother to abandon him.

"The World Says New Words" contains an anecdote about Hu Guang, saying: "Hu Guang's original surname is Huang, born on May 5, his parents were evil, put him in an urn, and threw himself into the river. When Hu Gong heard that there was a child crying in the urn, he took it and raised it as his own son, so he ascended to the third division. ”

The best way to overcome fear is to face it. In order to fight against this terrible day, the ancestors thought of some ways. For example, eating evil.

Pei Chu, a historian of the Southern Song Dynasty, noted in the "Historical Records of Filial Piety and Martial Piety": "The Han Dynasty sent the Dongjun to the owl, and the fifth day of May was the soup of the owl to give a hundred officials." Take the evil bird, so eat it. ”

Owl is a general term for owls, that is, owls. In ancient times, it was believed that the owl was a mother-eating evil bird, so it was eaten to eliminate its species.

In addition to punishing evil and promoting good, officials and chief officials eat the owl on the fifth day of the fifth month, and also have the meaning of using the owl as a sacrifice, atonement for sins, and blessings, and driving away evil - the evil bird that eats the mother is eaten by me, and the place I shepherd will no longer disturb the parents.

It is better to defeat magic with magic and superstition with superstition than to surrender to evil.

The officials ate the soup, and the masses also had their own way of resisting - decorating the portals with zhusuo, peach seals and wormwood, and tying colorful silk on their arms.

"The Book of Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty" contains: "In the midsummer month, everything is prosperous, the day and summer solstice, the yin qi sprouts, and the fear of things is not good. Its ceremony: Zhu Suo even meat dishes, Mi Mu Gu Zhong, six inches long with peach seal, three inches square, five-color calligraphy as the law, in order to give the door. ”

It is said that at the beginning of May, everything begins to grow, but the yin energy is still strong, and in order to stop the yin energy from getting in the way, (so it needs to be suppressed in a way). The method is to use red rope to connect various meat dishes (referring to foods with strong smells such as onions, ginger, garlic, etc.) and utensils, use five colors of ink to write incantations on the peach wood seal six inches long and three inches wide, and then hang them on the door, (which can promote yang energy and suppress evil spirits).

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Liang Zongyi's "Jing Chu Years Chronicles" recorded: "On the ...... of May 5, Cai Ai thought it was a person and hung it on the household to poison the gas. ”

That is, the wormwood collected is tied into a human shape and hung on the portal, which is to use the "pure yang nature" of wormwood to suppress yin qi and drive away ghosts and poisons.

In fact, the special aroma of wormwood repells mosquitoes. And with fewer mosquitoes, fewer germs are transmitted by them. In doing so, it really works.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month, the door of the house is hung with Zhu Suo, peach seal and wormwood to ward off evil spirits, so what should the travelers who are running around do?

The method is to tie multicolored silk around the arm.

"Customs and Customs" cloud: "On May 5, those who tie their arms with colorful silk will expel soldiers and ghosts, so that people will not get sick. ”

Ying Shao also made a detailed record of the colorful silk: "A long-lived thread, a life-sustaining thread, a soldier, a five-color silk, and a Zhu Suo." There are also sundries such as weaving to give each other a legacy. ”

At home, there were fixed ritual weapons (Zhusuo, Momoji, and Mugwort), and on the outside, there were amulets (multicolored silk) that they carried with them, and in order to fight against evil, the ancestors armed them to the teeth.

Then, things change and develop. In the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, the folk customs of the Dragon Boat Festival began to change greatly.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the intensive occurrence of natural and man-made disasters shocked people's life experience and spiritual experience, and the social and cultural changes took place.

This cultural change was manifested in the rise of metaphysics among the elites, who were keen to talk about ultimate and original metaphysical propositions such as "emptiness" and "nothingness", which eventually gave rise to the so-called Wei and Jin dynasties.

In the public class, it is manifested as seeing life as a hard journey, believing that worshipping ghosts and gods cannot bring happiness to oneself, and it is better to have fun and play the world in time.

Looking at it positively, this makes the people happy in suffering; On the negative side, this is called a universal pendulum lying flat, what is love.

In addition, the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was the time when the stars of traditional medicine shone brightly. Famous doctors such as Zhang Zhongjing, Hua Tuo, Huang Fumi, Wang Shuhe, and Ge Hong have emerged, and Chinese medicine has made great progress.

Advances in medicine have reduced the probability of people getting sick and dying in May, and to a certain extent weakened the atmosphere of slaughter and sadness in this season.

It is in this context that even on such a fierce day as the fifth day of the fifth month of May, people have swept away the solemnity and heaviness of the past, and invented many light-hearted and lively entertainment activities.

The rituals of entertaining the gods and exorcising ghosts during the Dragon Boat Festival have gradually evolved into entertainment activities that entertain people and entertain themselves.

During the Wei and Jin dynasties, the Yuefu poem "Five Days of Picking Poems" that described the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of May:

"The filament is a good festival, and the golden thread should be Jiachen.

Tie Lu with Chu Ke, pick Ai different poets.

Fold the flowers to compete for fresh color, and wipe the dew to dye Fangjin.

With a delicate slanted eye, a smile and a slight slight.

Dedicated to Yiluopu, Huaipei is like a riverside. ”

In this poem, the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth month is no longer a day of extreme evil, but is called "good festival" and "jiachen". People are "coquettish", "smiling", "slanting", and "slight", immersed in a joyful festival.

It can be seen that after the evolution of the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, the folk customs of the Dragon Boat Festival have undergone major changes.

In Oujiachong, over the years, through the unremitting efforts of the traverser Ou Xing, the customs have changed, and the evolution process of the Dragon Boat Festival folk customs has been greatly accelerated.

The terrifying atmosphere of the old Dragon Boat Festival gradually dissipated, the festival atmosphere became more and more enthusiastic, and the folk activities became more and more colorful.

"Midsummer Moon...... It is the moon, the day is long, yin and yang fight, death and life are divided" - "The Book of Rites: The Order of the Month"