The Dragon Boat Festival, originally known as the Duanwu Festival, is also known as the Danyang Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Tianzhong Festival, and the Tianchang Festival. Duan is the "beginning", "first" meaning. The first five days of the year can be called Duanwu. In the lunar calendar, the first month of the year is the month of the Earth's branches, the first month of the year is the month of the Yin, the second month of the year is the month of the Mao, and the second month of the year is the month of the Wu, so the month of May is the month of the Wu, and the first five days of the month of May are called Tuen Ng.
On the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, on the historical point of view, as of the Six Dynasties, *** there are five say, the content of the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate the Qu Yuan said that the most widely circulated. Eat brown, hanging white moxa, calamus, wear vanilla drive five poisons, shooting willow is the Dragon Boat Festival activities traditional customs and activities. Women and children like to use silk and other sewing into a small dumplings, chicken hearts, gourds, cherries, mulberries, as well as small monkeys, small tiger-shaped handicrafts, or wrapped in silk thread into a small dumplings, the Dragon Boat Festival, and the bag of incense a piece, selected one or two pieces to hang in front of the chest. It is believed that this can prevent disease, wear to the noon of the Dragon Boat Festival, throw it away, called "throwing disaster".
The Warring States period, Chu and Qin struggle for supremacy, the poet Qu Yuan is very much valued by the king of Chu, but Qu Yuan's ideas by the Shangguan Daifu Jin Shang as the head of the old school of opposition, and constantly in the face of the king of Chu Huaiwang to discredit the Qu Yuan, the king of Chu Huaiwang gradually estranged from the Qu Yuan, has a great ambition Qu Yuan doubly pained, with his unstoppable sadness and anger, wrote the "Ri Sao," the "days to" and other immortal poems.
In 229 BC, Qin captured eight cities in Chu, and then sent an envoy to ask King Huai of Chu to go to Qin to negotiate peace. Qu Yuan saw through the Qin king's plot and risked his life to go to the palace to present the advantages and disadvantages, but King Huai of Chu not only refused to listen to him, but also expelled Qu Yuan from Yingdu. King Huai of Chu went to the meeting as scheduled, and was imprisoned as soon as he arrived at Qin. King Huai of Chu had a lot of regrets and became sick with depression, and died in Qin three years later. Soon after King Hahai of Chu assumed the throne, the King of Qin sent troops to attack Chu, and King Hahai withdrew from the capital in fear, and the Qin soldiers captured Ying. Qu Yuan, on his way to exile, heard the news of the death of King Huai of Chu and the destruction of Ying, and was disheartened by the news, and sighed longingly to the sky, and threw himself into the Bioluo River, which is a torrent.
The fishermen on the river and the people on the bank, heard that the Qu Yuan doctor threw himself into the river have come to the river, struggling to salvage the body of the Qu Yuan, have brought the dumplings, eggs into the river, there is this Langzhong also poured into the Wang Huanghuang wine, in order to drug faint water beasts and dragons, so that the body of the Qu Yuan doctor from harm.
Since then, every year on the fifth day of May - Qu Yuan martyrdom day, the people of Chu to the river rowing dragon boat, cast zongzi, in order to commemorate the great patriotic poet.
The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival have been passed down in this way.