2. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Tianzhong Festival, originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from dragon festival in ancient times. On the Mid-Summer Dragon Boat Festival, black dragon spent seven nights soaring in the south of Zhongtian, which was the most "right" position in the whole year, that is, as the fifth slogan in the Book of Changes, Gan Gua said, "The flying dragon is in the sky". Its origin covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, it has mixed a variety of folk customs into one, and the content of festival customs is rich. Picking dragon boats and eating zongzi are two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.
3. Dragon Boat Festival, originally founded by ancient ancestors, is a festival for worshipping the dragon ancestors and praying for evil spirits. Legend has it that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5 and committed suicide. Later, people also took 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. Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "flying dragons in the sky" as a lucky day to worship their ancestors and pray for evil spirits, and injected the summer seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics"; The Dragon Boat Festival is regarded as an "evil month and evil day", which started in the northern Central Plains, and will be attached to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures.
4. 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.