Dragon Boat Festival is a festival that we gradually forget. In fact, it is a trend in recent years that traditional festivals in China gradually fade away. This is not just the grim situation facing the Dragon Boat Festival. Isn't someone complaining about such an important festival as the Spring Festival? Compared with Christmas and Valentine's Day, traditional festivals are generally facing a severe test. For the Dragon Boat Festival, in the life of big cities, people simply go to the supermarket to buy some quick-frozen zongzi. Apart from commemorating the poet Qu Yuan, many people know little about its other cultural significance. In 2005, gangneung danoje festival successfully declared "representative works of oral and intangible heritage of mankind", which triggered a "Dragon Boat Festival Defence War" and finally made people pay attention to this festival. However, after the "storm", our attention to traditional festivals has not changed significantly, and the idea of reviving traditional culture through festivals still needs our further reflection. We put too much emphasis on the cultural connotation of festivals, while ignoring the action cultivation in which people participate. Just like the Dragon Boat Festival, if you just eat a zongzi, for people living in the city, it is simply a measure of how far it is from the supermarket to your home.
The Dragon Boat Festival in China is a festival that people must keep a serious attitude. On this day, you should hang a purse for your child, draw a "king" on your forehead with realgar to ward off poison and evil spirits, and take your child to make bows and arrows. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Children's Day" and "Doll's Day", which makes children feel the joyful atmosphere of the festival and is the most important part of inheriting culture. For various reasons, people often adopt a perfunctory attitude of quick consumption towards traditional festivals, which is obviously not conducive to inheriting its cultural connotation.
The Dragon Boat Festival is listed as a legal festival, which provides a good environment for people to have a good Dragon Boat Festival. It can be guaranteed in time, so that its symbolic significance can be valued and more people can be awakened to the cultural memory of the Dragon Boat Festival. However, if only "two weekends" become "three weekends", it will not be a simple holiday. We should not only revive the important position of this festival in public life and maintain its authoritative cultural significance, but also dig deep into its simple and beautiful side and endow it with vitality that can be integrated with modern life.