The Dragon Boat Festival, which began in the May of the lunar calendar, originated from the Summer Solstice Festival in the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties. Its main significance is to ward off evil spirits and drive away epidemics, and in coordination with the solar terms, festival rituals and festival objects, it is also known as the May Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Tianzhong Festival, the Noon Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Calamus Festival, the Yulan Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Zongzi Festival.
The surging news has learned that since June 1, "The Taipei Palace Museum's collection of historical documents and treasures of the Qing Dynasty - the Dragon Boat Festival" has been exhibited in the northern courtyard of the Taipei Palace Museum. The exhibition features the collections of the Dragon Boat Festival in the Taipei Palace Museum, and is divided into five units to interpret the Dragon Boat Festival, which represents a festival in summer.
The first unit of the exhibition, "The Legend of Summer", traces back to the spread of the poisonous moon in summer to drive away disasters and people's memorial activities. The second unit, "Five Stories", combs the practice of traditional festivals in the Qing Dynasty from the relevant documents of the Dragon Boat Festival. Unit 3 "Collect the Dragon Boat Festival". Follow the cultural relics collected by the Qing Palace to reflect on the Dragon Boat Festival. The fourth unit, "Joy in Heaven", looks at the time of cultivating Yan Xi in May and the celebration of the Qing government in response to the environment and crowd interaction. Unit 5 "Kun Island Dragon Boat Festival", with the help of the Dragon Boat Festival's chronicles, shows the island's Taiwanese customs.
Summer legend
The climate is hot and dry, and plagues are easy to occur. In the summer when snakes and insects breed, the Dragon Boat Festival in May is the day when the sun is in the middle of the sky. The weather is extremely hot and is regarded as a poisonous month and a bad day. According to legend, the Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival for ethnic groups in southern China to worship dragons. In the historical process, it integrated the customs of disease elimination and epidemic prevention in northern summer, and attached the commemoration of historical figures such as Qu Yuan, Wu Zixu, Cao E in the southern region. It was launched in the form of hanging calamus, wearing wormwood leaves, tying five colored lines, bathing in orchids, eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine, and racing dragon boats to pray for good fortune, welcome good luck, and suppress evil spirits and fight disasters.
Continuation of Qi's Humor Liang Wujun wrote four books about Wenyuan Pavilion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty
Continuation of Qi's Humor Liang Wujun wrote four books about Wenyuan Pavilion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty
Continuation of Qi Harmony is a collection of supernatural stories created by Wu Jun (469-520), a litterateur in the Southern Dynasty. It first linked Qu Yuan with the Dragon Boat Festival, but Qu Yuan had died for more than 750 years.
A Record of Beginners Tang Xujian and others were ordered to write four books about Wenyuan Pavilion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty
A Record of Beginners Tang Xujian and others were ordered to write four books about Wenyuan Pavilion during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty
The Record of Beginners was originally compiled for the convenience of the scholars of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty to check things when writing essays. It includes the Record of Local Customs, which is regarded as the earliest record of the Dragon Boat Festival: "In midsummer, during the Dragon Boat Festival, you can cook corns and rice dumplings.".
Double Five Story
The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Noon Day Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Zhengyang Festival, the Yulan Festival, and the Tianzhong Festival, has evolved from the original sacrificial nature to the entertainment oriented festival in the late Tang Dynasty. In the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, there were records of emperors watching dragon boat races on the Dragon Boat Festival. As the Qing regime was exposed to the Ming Dynasty's rules and regulations before entering the customs, the Dragon Boat Festival, as a representative festival in summer, not only followed the Han customs, but also revealed the characteristics of the Qing regime from festival activities.
Records of Emperor Zhang, the Emperor Shizu of the Qing Dynasty, from April to May of the 11th year of Shunzhi, Xiaohong
In the 11th year of Shunzhi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1654), on the Dragon Boat Festival, Emperor Shunzhi specially summoned his ministers to board a dragon boat to the lake in the west garden of the imperial city.
Yuanmingyuan's poem "Pengdao Yaotai" (Qing Dynasty), written by Emperor Gaozong Qianlong in the 10th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty
Yuanmingyuan's poem "Pengdao Yaotai" (Qing Dynasty), written by Emperor Gaozong Qianlong in the 10th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty
The place where Qing emperors watched dragon boat during the Dragon Boat Festival was Fuhai, Yuanmingyuan, which lasted until the end of Xianfeng.
Report on the situation of the flag men of Jingzhou Camp correcting people to beat up and destroy shops in Seoul on July 14, Daoguang 26 (1846-09-04) Hengtong, etc
Report on the situation of the flag men of Jingzhou Camp correcting people to beat up and destroy shops in Seoul on July 14, Daoguang 26 (1846-09-04) Hengtong, etc
Report on the situation of the flag men of Jingzhou Camp correcting people to beat up and destroy shops in Seoul on July 14, Daoguang 26 (1846-09-04) Hengtong, etc
Jingzhou, located in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, is the only way to and from Yunnan, Guizhou, Pakistan and Sichuan. Since the end of the San Francisco Rebellion in the 22nd year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1683), Jingzhou garrison was set up, which was divided by the Han people. In the 26th year of Daoguang's reign (1846), Jingzhou Banner and Han people clashed because they watched the dragon boat race.
Collect Duanyang
In addition to eating zongzi and hanging wormwood with the festival ceremony, the Qing Palace also displays the festival offerings during the Dragon Boat Festival. The pictures and utensils arranged in response to the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival mostly include hollyhocks, pomegranates, calamus, wormwood and other flowers and fruits in season, as well as descriptions of dragon boat races, adding a lively and festive atmosphere to the festival. On the first afternoon of May, when climbing high to Shunyang, we will follow the Dragon Boat Festival collection of the Qing Emperor and think about the Dragon Boat Festival in the Qing Dynasty.
Yanyun Collection Painting of Song Li Song in the Sky Water Drama
The painting in this picture should be the imperial boat where the emperor played and watched the competition for the bid. The drawing depicts a double storey pavilion with double eaves and cross ridges, Xieshan Mountain and Cuanjian Peak, connected by a suspended arc corridor, and the flying floor platform is like a heavenly palace pavilion.
Yuan Dynasty
"Tianzhong" is another name for the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May. The title of this painting is "Beautiful Scenery in the Sky", which was created to meet the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival. In the picture, the bottle is decorated with hollyhock, pomegranate, calamus and other May flowers, and the branches are tied with delicate sachets. The dish is decorated with zongzi, lychee, pomegranate and other flowers and fruits. This festival is in the summer when insects are breeding and plagues are easy to occur. The rare one has four Taoist talismans and a portrait of Zhong Kui on the top of the canvas to drive away evil spirits.
Ivory Immortal Worker Boat with Painting Cock Box
It is carved in ivory, and the whole ship is shaped like a dragon. There are three floors of the middle carved cabin, eight oars on the left and right of the ship, and railings, archways, and cloisters on the deck. Sixteen triangular flags are decorated on the top and bottom, and one umbrella can be used to open the doors and windows. The dragon boat seat is in the golden lacquer cock box.
Copper embryo painting enamel flower and herb five poison box during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty
The whole vessel is decorated with enamel, with a pink blue bottom, and the cover is painted with five geometric ribs composed of pink, yellow, blue, and green, as well as five poisons of scorpion, snake, centipede, toad, and spider, decorated with various flowers and plants. The lid and box body are painted with yellow brown geometric ridges, decorated with peach fruits, lotus flowers and other flowers and fruits.
Tianzhong Tongle
The Dragon Boat Festival is a time for the monarchs and officials to connect with each other. The emperor will give the officials medicine ingots, sachets, beads, embroidered fans, gauze and other items needed to cope with the summer heatstroke. In addition to the transmission of festival blessings, the emperor will pay tribute to the emperor with local characteristics. In addition to the appreciation of the Dragon Boat Festival tribute, the harmonious scene of friendship between people from top to bottom will be interwoven in the Qing Dynasty.
Give thanks to He Tianpei for the gift of five color velvet charm sachets and other items on May 24, the first year of Yongzheng (1723-06-26)
The Dragon Boat Festival will use the blue, white, red, black and yellow ropes corresponding to the five directions and five elements to make the scenery to ward off evil spirits and drive away epidemics. Spindle medicine is a special summer medicine in the Qing Dynasty. Grind the medicine into powder, and then add appropriate adhesive to make it into the specified shape. It has the functions of preventing heatstroke and exorcism, promoting blood circulation and detumescence, clearing heat and calming nerves, and can be used externally or internally.
Give thanks to the emperor for giving Shage sachets, medicine ingots, Cao Fan handkerchiefs, and Cai Xin, on June 13, the 54th year of Qianlong reign (1789-08-03)
In the hot summer, the Qing Dynasty emperors often gave cool clothes such as gauze, silk and Ge on the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival. Fan is a must in summer. It also has the meaning of purity. It is a good gift for the Dragon Boat Festival.
Kundao Dragon Boat Festival
Taiwan Island of China, shaped like a giant fish lying on the sea in ancient legend, has the reputation of Kun Island. Since it was recorded in the history books in the Three Kingdoms era under the name of "Yizhou", it has started the activities of people to continue to Taiwan, and also launched the influence and development of traditional Han culture on Taiwan Island. From the records of the Dragon Boat Festival in Taiwan in the Qing Palace documents, we can see the unique summer solstice customs of Taiwan.
(This article is based on the exhibition materials on the official website of the Palace Museum in Taipei.)
