Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Tianzhong Festival. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the black dragon spent seven nights soaring in the south of the center.
It is in the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth concept in the Book of Changes: "Flying dragons are in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping the Miluo River on the fifth day of May.
Festival introduction
Later generations also regard the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, and there are also sayings to commemorate Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui. 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 blend with each other, and the content or details of customs are different 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. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it. In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday.