Dragon Boat Festival is our traditional cultural practices inside a very important festival, about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are many long-standing legends, then, the Dragon Boat Festival real origin you know?

1, to commemorate Qu Yuan: Qu Yuan is a poet and statesman of the Warring States period, because of the political reforms advocated, offending the interests of the aristocratic ministers, was ostracized and exiled, and finally defeated by the Qin State, Qu Yuan grief and indignation, jumped into the Miluo River, martyred, the people in order to commemorate the Qu Yuan, the people jumped into the river as the day of the Dragon Boat Festival. In order to honor Qu Yuan, the people designated the day he jumped into the Miluo River as the Dragon Boat Festival.

2, to commemorate the Wu general Wu Zixu: According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Zixu, a native of Chu, led the Wu army to kill the capital of Chu, and whipped the body of the dead king of Chu Ping 300, to avenge the murder of his father and brother. Later, Wu Zixu led the Wu army to destroy the state of Yue, the king of Yue, Goujian, took himself as a hostage in the state of Wu, Wu Zixu advised the king of Wu, Fu Chai, to kill Goujian, but Fu Chai did not listen to him. When Wu Zixu was advised to kill Goujian, Fu Cha refused to listen to him. Later, Fu Cha listened to the slanderous words of Bo Xi, and sent a sword to Wu Zixu, causing him to commit suicide. Before his death, Wu Zixu told his neighbors, "When I die, gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of the capital of Wu, so as to see the army of Yue enter the city and destroy Wu." Upon hearing this, King Fu-chai of Wu was furious and had Wu Zixu's body sunk in the Qiantang River on the 5th day of the 5th month. The local people made dumplings and raced dragon boats on this day to honor him.

3, to commemorate the filial daughter of Cao E: Legend has it that in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Shangyu people, Cao E's father drowned in the river, Cao E looking for many days later, but still did not find his father, so in the day of the 5th of May, 14-year-old Cao E threw himself into the river to look for his father, and a few days later, Cao E held his father's body out of the river. In order to commemorate the filial piety of Cao E, the descendants will be May 5 every year as a holiday to commemorate the Cao E.

Dragon Boat Festival customs are rich and colorful, mainly dragon boat racing, dragon festival, picking herbs, hanging mugwort, playing the afternoon water, wash the herbal water, worship the gods and ancestors, dip the dragon boat water, eating rice dumplings, paper dragons, paper kites, tethered five-color silk threads, Pei Xiangbao and other customs.

Pick up the dragon boat activities in southern China along the coast is very popular, spread abroad, loved by the people of all countries, and the formation of international competitions. Duanwu food dumplings of the custom, since ancient times in all parts of China prevailed, has become the Chinese nation's greatest influence, the most extensive coverage of one of the folk dietary practices.