Qu Yuan, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, commonly known as the "Dragon Boat Festival". "Five" and "Wu" through, "five" and for the number of Yang, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the five, heavy five, Duanyang, in the sky, it is the traditional festival of the Han Chinese people. The essential activities of this day gradually evolved into: eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, moxa, lavender, Angelica dahurica, drink xionghuang wine. It is said that eating rice dumplings and dragon boat racing, is to commemorate the Qu Yuan, so after the liberation of the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day" to commemorate the Qu Yuan. As for hanging calamus, moxa leaves, smoke Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, drink Xionghuang wine, it is said to be in order to suppress the evil spirits. Although the Dragon Boat Festival every year, but about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, but not very clear, summarized, roughly the following said. One of the origins of the Dragon Boat Festival: to commemorate Qu Yuan said. This is the earliest from the Southern Liang Dynasty Wu Jun "continued Qi Harmony" and the Northern Zhou Zong Jing "Jing Chu chronicle" records. It is said that Qu Yuan on the fifth day of May threw himself into the Buro River, died for the mosquito dragon trapped, the world mourn, every day to throw five-color silk dumplings in the water to drive the dragon. Another rumor, Qu Yuan cast the Buro River, the local people heard the news immediately rowing boat rescue, has been traveling to Dongting Lake, the end of the Qu Yuan's body is not seen. At that time, coinciding with the rainy day, the lake boat together gathered at the shore of the pavilion. When people learned that is to salvage the wise minister Qu Daifu, once again braved the rain, scrambling to row into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to send condolences, people swinging boat on the river, and then gradually developed into a dragon boat race. It seems that the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, dragon boat racing and commemorate the Qu Yuan related to the Tang Dynasty Wenxiu "Dragon Boat Festival" poem as evidence; "Festival points Dragon Boat Festival since who said, ancient rumors for Qu Yuan. I can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, and I can't wash away the injustice of the upright ministers." The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is the river ( 紊袼怠4怂党鲎远 骸恫芏鸨贰4呵锸蔽夤页嘉樽玉愫 ┒乐螅) ( 紊瘢 廊税Ф 乐 视卸宋缃凇) (The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is the River of the Dragon Boat Festival). Dragon Boat Festival origin of the third, the Dragon Festival said. This argument comes from Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival Examination" and "Dragon Boat Festival's Historical Education". He believes that the fifth day of May is the ancient Wuyue region "dragon" tribes held a totem ancestor worship day. The main reasons are: (a) the two most important activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, eating rice dumplings and racing, are related to the dragon. Zongzi into the water is often stolen by the dragon, while the race is a dragon boat. (B) the race and the ancient wu yue local relationship is particularly deep, and wu yue people also have broken hair tattoo "to like the dragon child" custom. (C) in ancient times on the fifth day of May, there are "colorful silk tie arm" folk custom, which should be "like the Dragon" tattoo custom remains. Dragon Boat Festival origin of the fourth: the evil day said. According to the "Records of the Grand Historian", Meng Changjun Tian Wen was born on the fifth day of the fifth month, his father had told his mother to abandon Tian Wen, the reason is that the child born on this day to harm the father. The Eastern Han Dynasty "Customs" also has "May 5th birth, male harm father, female harm mother". In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the general Wang Zhenxiao was born on the fifth day of the fifth month, and his grandfather named him "Zhenxiao". Song Huizong Zhao Orange was born on the fifth day of the fifth month, from childhood foster outside the palace. Can be seen, the ancient May 5 for the evil day, is a common phenomenon. In this way, in this day plug calamus, moxa to drive away ghosts, lavender, dahurica and drink xionghuang wine to avoid the epidemic, is a logical thing. Dragon Boat Festival origin of the fifth: the summer solstice. This view of Liu Deqian in the "" Dragon Boat "" and "" Chinese traditional festivals and interesting ", put forward three main reasons: (a) the authoritative works of the times "Jing Chu times" did not mention the fifth of May to eat zongzi holiday customs, but to eat zongzi written in the summer solstice. As for the race, the sui dynasty du taiqing made the "jade candle treasure canon" it is classified as the summer solstice recreational activities, it is not necessarily to salvage the great poet qu yuan. (b) Some elements of the Dragon Boat Festival customs, such as "treading on a hundred grasses", "fighting a hundred grasses", "picking various medicines", etc., actually have nothing to do with Qu Yuan. （The first explanation of the Dragon Boat Festival in the famous book "Age and Time" is: "The sun is shining, and the time is in the middle of summer." That is, the Dragon Boat Festival is the middle of summer, so the Dragon Boat Festival can also be called the middle of the day. From this point of view, the earliest origin of the Dragon Boat Festival when the summer solstice. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, and to commemorate the Qu Yuan said the most widespread. Because of the great personality of Qu Yuan, poetry, people are also willing to put this anniversary to him.