Introduction to the Dragon Boat Festival: The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in my country. On this day, we eat rice dumplings, race dragon boats, hang calamus, drink realgar wine, etc. The Dragon Boat Festival is China's first festival selected as a world intangible cultural heritage.

There are many legends about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, but in the long process of selection and elimination, the legend commemorating Qu Yuan is the most widely spread and the most popular. "His ambitions are clean and his actions are honest." Starting from Sima Qian's affectionate narration of Qu Yuan, Qu Yuan's loyal and patriotic image has become more and more prominent in the narrations of literati in the past dynasties. Since the Han Dynasty, people have believed that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from Qu Yuan.

In 1942, during the stalemate stage of the Anti-Japanese War, Guo Moruo's historical drama "Qu Yuan" used ancient metaphors to describe the present, arousing the patriotic enthusiasm of the general public and making Qu Yuan's patriotic image deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In 1954, Qu Yuan was included in the list of world cultural celebrities.

Song Ying believes that the Dragon Boat Festival was not originally started to commemorate Qu Yuan, but in the process of development, the Dragon Boat Festival gradually became closely associated with Qu Yuan and patriotism, and became an intangible cultural heritage of mankind.

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The origins of the multiple names of the Dragon Boat Festival:

1. Tianzhong Festival

The name of Tianzhong Festival is based on the art of yin and yang. Come by the number. Tian Rucheng of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "History of Traveling to the West Lake, Volume 20, Joys of the Xi Dynasty": "The Dragon Boat Festival is the Tianzhong Festival because the sun reaches its highest point at noon, especially at noon, so it is called the "Tianzhong Festival". ".

2. Duanyang Festival

The noon day is "Yangchen", and it is the first noon day in the noon month, so it is called Duanyang. "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji" says: Because when climbing in midsummer, Shunyang is above, and May is midsummer, and its first noon is a day when the weather is good when climbing in Shunyang, so it is called the "Duanyang Festival"

3. Chongwu Festival

The ancient Ganzhi era system uses the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches as the carrier. Initially, the Dragon Boat Festival is the noon day of the Wu month of the Ganzhi calendar, the first month is Jianyin, and the fifth month is the Wu month. In the Han Dynasty, due to the unification of the north and the south, the calendar changed. In order to facilitate the festival, the court stipulated that the annual Dragon Boat Festival be changed to the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

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Dragon boat racing was originally a form of sacrificial activity for the ancient Yue people to worship the dragon ancestors. Boats are commonly used in South Vietnam, and dragon figures are often painted on the bow and stern of the boat as the totem or protector of the tribe. The Dragon Boat Festival is the Dragon Boat Festival. An important activity of the festival, it is very popular in southern China, especially in Guangdong.

5. During the Five Floods

In some rural areas of Shanghai, near the north shore of Hangzhou Bay, such as In areas such as Fengxian and Nanhui, it is customary to call the Dragon Boat Festival "Dang Wu Flood".

6. Dragon Day Festival

Dragon is the original belief of the ancient Yue people, originating from the worship of celestial phenomena. The dragon rises in the east in spring, rises in the south in summer, retreats in the west in autumn, and disappears in the north in midsummer. Nanzhongtian is the day when the dragon flies to the sky, so it is called the dragon festival.

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