Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Tianzhong Festival. It is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.
Dragon Boat Festival, which originated in China, was originally a festival in which ancient ancestors offered sacrifices to their ancestors in the form of dragon boat races. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, threw himself into the Miluo River during the Dragon Boat Festival. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.
In some places, there are sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui. Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the dragon totem sacrifice of wuyue tribes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and began with "bad month and bad day" in the north, with commemorative contents for historical figures such as Qu Yuan, and finally formed the cultural connotation of today's Dragon Boat Festival.
The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival has integrated many kinds of folk customs in its historical development and evolution. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in customs content or details across the country. The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include dragon boat picking, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood and calamus, ancestor worship, washing herbal water, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boats, eating zongzi, flying kites, tying colorful silk thread, smoking Atractylodes lancea and wearing sachets.
Dragon Boat Race is very popular in the southern coastal areas of China, which is deeply loved by people all over the world and has formed an international competition. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular all over China since ancient times, and it has become one of the most influential and widespread folk food customs of the Chinese nation.
Performing traditional folk activities during the Dragon Boat Festival can not only enrich people's spiritual and cultural life, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it.