The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival:
The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Day Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Yulan Festival, and Tianzhong Festival. It is the first festival in China to be selected as an intangible cultural heritage in the world. It originated in ancient China and is dated every year. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival to drive away the gods of plague and sacrifice to dragons in summer. There are folk customs such as "stealing the dragon boat", "eating zongzi", "putting paper kites", and "hanging wormwood and calamus". There are at least four or five theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. So far, the most influential point of view on the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the local people injured him and died, so they tried their best to rescue him by boat, because of the custom of racing; it is also said that people often put food into the water to sacrifice Qu Yuan, but most of them were eaten by dragons, and only neem was used because of Qu Yuan's prompting. Rice is wrapped in leaves and wrapped with colored silk to make the later dumplings. In order to commemorate this day, people set it as the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival are also known as the four traditional Chinese festivals.
The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival customs mainly include shoveling the dragon boat, offering sacrifices to dragons, picking herbs, hanging wormwood and calamus, worshiping gods and ancestors, washing herbal water, playing water at noon, immersing in dragon boat water, eating rice dumplings, putting paper kites, watching dragon boats, tying five-color silk threads, and smoking Atractylodes, sachets, etc. Dragon boat racing is very popular in the coastal areas of southern China. After it was spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people from all over the world and formed an international competition. The custom of eating rice dumplings on the Dragon Boat Festival has been prevalent in all parts of China since ancient times and has become one of the most influential and wide-ranging folk eating customs of the Chinese nation. During the Dragon Boat Festival, traditional folk activities are performed, which can not only enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture well. The Dragon Boat Festival has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.
1. Dragon Boat Race (Dragon Boat Row): Dragon Boat Race (Dragon Boat Row) is a symbolic activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is a competition for many people to paddle. Every year on the fifth day of May, dragon boat races are held all over the country to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. After the dragon boat race was spread abroad, it was deeply liked by the people of every country and formed an international competition.
2. Eating zongzi: Eating zongzi is one of the important customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. At the end of April and the beginning of May every year, people start to soak glutinous rice, clean the zongzi leaves, and wrap the zongzi to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan in our country.
2022 Dragon Boat Festival: The holiday will be from 6.3 to 6.5, a total of 3 days.
