Every year on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's four major traditional festivals, the origin of a number of sayings:

One, the characters to commemorate that, mainly: 1, to commemorate the Qu Yuan said, the most widely circulated is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, legend has it that during the Warring States period of the Chu State poet jumped on the fifth day of the fifth of May in the Miluo River to kill himself, the people in order to not let the river fish and shrimp ate him! body, but also for his soul is not hungry in the river, people with dumplings wrapped in food thrown into the river, after the formation of the Dragon Boat Festival food dumplings custom, Dragon Boat Festival customs and rowing dragon boats, wearing scented sachets, tie colorful ropes, hanging wormwood, painted drink Xionghuang wine.

2, to commemorate Wu Zixu said: Wu Zixu heart of the country, but was framed by the treacherous ministers, in order to prove his innocence, killed himself, the body was thrown into the river on May 5, so there are rumors that the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Wu Zixu.

3, to commemorate the filial daughter Cao E said, according to legend, Cao E's father drowned in the river, a few days to see the body, the filial daughter of Cao E was only fourteen years old, day and night along the river crying. After seventeen days, on May 5, also threw the river, five days after holding out the father's body, which was passed on as a myth, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also commemorated for the Day of the Filial Piety Cao E.

4, to commemorate the jiezitui said, jiezitui is the cold food festival and the Qingming Festival legend of the protagonist, but there are also think the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival and jiezitui related. According to the Eastern Han Dynasty Cai Yong's qin music works "qin drill" said, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the sage Jie Zi push.

Two, originated in the May 5th of the evil month and evil day of the taboo, the Han Dynasty northern ancients believe that the May 5th is "evil month, evil day", and there is "not lift the May child" of the custom, that is, the May 5th of the babies born on the day of the baby, whether male or female can not be raised to adulthood! Once raised, the male harmed the father, the female harmed the mother, and thus the emergence of related cultural activities, the formation of a quite distinctive "to avoid the five poisons", "to avoid the Dragon Boat Festival" and other customs.

Three, the summer solstice said, the first advocate of the summer solstice said Mr. Huang Shi, in 1963, he put forward in the book "Dragon Boat Rituals and Customs History", the Dragon Boat Festival, such as a trickle of water originated in the ancient times, the three generations converge for the Sichuan River, Qin and Han expansion of the river, the Tang and Song Naxing into the lake and the sea.

Four, storage orchid bathing said, according to the Western Han ritualist Dai Sheng compiled the "Book of Rites," said the Zhou Dynasty, there has been a "storage orchid bathing" custom; the ancients picked orchids in May, the prevalence of orchid broth bath, in addition to the toxicity of the custom.

Fifth, Goujian said, Song Dynasty Gao Cheng, "Things Chronicle" publication, the Dragon Boat Festival is from the Spring and Autumn period, King Goujian was so the day to practice the water army.