The Dragon Boat Festival, taste traditional culture

The Dragon Boat Festival, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is an important traditional festival of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival is originally a summer festival to drive away the god of blast and sacrifice to the dragon, is the ancient people to sacrifice to the dragon, but also in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui. Later on that day, the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan committed suicide by the riverside, so people regard the Dragon Boat Festival as a day to commemorate Qu Yuan. Now, the Dragon Boat Festival has a strong sense of patriotism, rich historical and cultural heritage, and is also an important background for carrying forward the national spirit.

When five days, said of a couple wish one thousand years

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival reflect the cultural inheritance from ancient times to the present day, the integration of times and regions, and embodies the wisdom of the ancients and the feelings of the Chinese people. Neptune as an international logistics company, adhere to carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture, improve China's cultural soft power, so that Chinese logistics enterprises in the international competition has a stronger cultural confidence, grasp a more stable foothold.

Festival gifts

Neptune's gifts for friends, placed inside the mugwort sachets, duck eggs, rice dumplings, mung beans, and cool porridge ingredients and a series of traditional ingredients, each of which is related to the local customs left by the ancestors, this is also the most sincere blessing of Neptune to the partners.

Hiding in afternoon

In the past the Dragon Boat Festival and the customs of hiding noon, this custom comes from a belief, that is: in May for the "evil month", the spread of plague, heavy five is an unlucky day, so the parents will not fully one year old children took to the grandmother's home to escape, in order to escape the disaster, so called hiding noon. Because the summer heat will come in May, mosquitoes breeding, in the past no medical and health equipment of the people, prone to infectious diseases, thus bringing people a fear, so the custom of avoiding noon.

Hangs ay tsao

At the gate of the Dragon Boat Festival, mugwort, calamus, fig-tree mugwort, fig-tree and ju pu are usually tied together with red paper and then inserted or hung on the door. Because the calamus is the first of the five ray in the sky, the symbol of the sword to drive away the evil, because the season of growth and shape are considered to feel the "Baiyin gas", the blade is sword shaped, inserted in the door can ward off evil. So the alangists called it "water sword", and later the custom was extended to "PuJian", which can cut down thousands of evil spirits. And the Jin Dynasty "local record" is "to Ai tiger shape, or cut the ribbon for the tiger, post to Ai leaf, my wife compete to cut it. Later more calamus, or human shape, or Xiao Jian shape, named PuJian, to drive away evil spirits but ghost.

Eat five red

The Dragon Boat Festival in addition to eating zongzi, in the area south of the Yangtze River to eat a "five" things, there are "five red" "five yellow", and even "five poison" - said. These items are "roast duck, amaranth, duck eggs in red oil, lobster, and realgar wine". Legend of the five poisons in the sky to wait for the first sound of spring thunder can go to the earth, so people call that time for the Awakening of Insects. But some poisons are afraid of cold, so they are about to the Dragon Boat Festival after the weather is warm to go together to harm the world. The five poisons are snake, spider, scorpion, centipede and gecko. They came to the world at the time of the Dragon Boat Festival, heard a hostess in saying "eat fast, this is the five poison fried". Surprised, the five poisons bent over the window and saw five red dishes in five plates on the table. The five poisons were scared out of their souls and hurried away. Later, people eat five kinds of red dishes on the day of Dragon Boat Festival to scare away those poisonous animals. So the so-called "five red" has also become the Dragon Boat Festival table must menu.