The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and later generations also regard the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are mixed, and there are differences in customs content or details due to different regional cultures.
Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. The Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national legal holiday. In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the List of Representative Works of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.
Dragon Boat Festival, which originated in China, was originally a festival in which ancient ancestors sacrificed their ancestors in the form of dragon boat races. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, threw himself into the Miluo River during the Dragon Boat Festival. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some places, there are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui. Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the dragon totem sacrifice of wuyue tribes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and it was infused with the seasonal fashion of "getting rid of diseases and preventing epidemics" in summer. The Dragon Boat Festival started in the north as "a bad month and a bad day", accompanied by commemorative contents to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures, and finally formed the cultural connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival today.
Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular folk festival in China. It is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Due to the vast territory and many stories and legends, not only many different festival names have been produced, but also different customs have been observed in different places. Mid-summer Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day for flying dragons. dragon festival in the form of dragon boat picking is an important theme of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is still popular in the southern coastal areas of China. In addition, a series of Dragon Boat Festival customs have been derived from the numbers of Yin and Yang and the seasons. According to the number of yin and yang, noon is yang, and heavy noon is the most yang. The ancients regarded the mid-afternoon and mid-afternoon as the most important time to eliminate yin evil.
The ancients also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as an auspicious year, which coincided with the summer solstice, and called it the "Dragon Flower Festival", which is said to be "once in a blue moon". Summer is the season when Yin and Yang strive for each other. Yang moves upward and Yin is forced downward. In the afternoon, Yang is pure and healthy, and Yin is afraid of evil. Summer is also a season to drive away the plague. In midsummer, the Dragon Boat Festival is full of yang, and everything is flourishing at this point. It is the day with the strongest medicinal properties of herbs in a year. The herbs collected on the Dragon Boat Festival are the most effective and effective in eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics. Due to the gathering of pure yang and healthy qi in the heavens and the earth at noon and the magical characteristics of herbs on this day, many Dragon Boat Festival customs passed down from ancient times have the contents of eliminating yin evil and eliminating diseases and epidemic prevention, such as hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boat water, tying five-color silk thread to ward off evil spirits, washing herbal water, fumigating Atractylodes rhizome to eliminate diseases and epidemic prevention and so on.