Duanwu Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Wuzhi Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, Chongwu, Wuzhi, Summer Festival, Puzhi, was originally a summer festival to drive out the plague, and then the poet Qu Yuan of the State of Chu threw himself into the river on the Duanwu Festival, which was turned into a festival in honor of Qu Yuan (said that it commemorates the death anniversary of the loyal minister of the State of Wu Wu, Wu Zixu), and the Spring Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc., belonging to the same East Asian Cultural Circle. Mainland China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Vietnam.

Origins

Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival honors Qu Yuan, a poet of the state of Chu during the Warring States period, who threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month to die for his country, while some accounts relate it to Wu Zixu, a great physician of the state of Wu, rather than Qu Yuan.

The "Jing and Chu Records of the Years and Seasons" (荆楚年時記) written by Zong Security Service during the Xiao and Liang Dynasties of the Southern China Dynasty is an introduction to the seasons and festivals of the Jing and Chu regions in ancient China. In the 30th section of the book, it is recorded: "According to the May 5th ferry race, the common Qu Yuan cast Miluo day, hurt its death, so and ordered oars to save the ...... Handan Jun Cao E monument, May 5th, when the welcome Wu Jun ...... Si and the East Wu The custom, things in Zixu, not about Qu Ping also." It is believed that the Dragon Boat Race in Dongwu area is to meet Wu Zixu, who has been regarded as the river god at that time, and has nothing to do with Qu Yuan. Regarding the dumplings, there is a local record: "It is the custom of the countryside to dedicate the dumplings to Dr. Wu on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, not to Qu Yuan."

Many of the Dragon Boat Festival customs that are prevalent in the world were already in circulation before Qu Yuan and Wu Zixu, and many of them have the element of driving away the plague and avoiding epidemics, so some people speculate that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the taboo on the evil day (i.e., the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which is named because of the prevalence of the plague in midsummer).

Another theory, the scholar wen yiduo pointed out that the two most important activities of the Dragon Boat Festival - race and eat zongzi, are related to the dragon (see wen yiduo "myths and poems" of the "Dragon Boat Festival"), it may be to welcome the god of the Tao sacrifices totem custom. According to legend, the Wu-Yue people of ancient southern China (in the area of present-day Jiangsu and Zhejiang) considered themselves to be the heirs of the dragon, and held a ceremony of sacrificing totems on the fifth day of the fifth month every year, in order to seek favorable winds and rainfall and a large harvest in the coming year. They wrapped their food in leaves or put it in bamboo tubes and threw it into the river. Later, they also have the practice of visiting friends and relatives in canoes on this day. When they were happy, they held impromptu canoe races, which slowly evolved into the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival today.

In 1939, when the anti-Japanese war was raging, the Chongqing Literary and Artist Association against the Enemy in honor of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, it was agreed that every year the Dragon Boat Festival, the day of Qu Yuan's death for the Poet's Day

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