The origin of eating salted duck eggs at the Dragon Boat Festival is that after the Dragon Boat Festival, which heralds the arrival of the hot summer, plant and animal life activities enter a phase of exuberance, coupled with the humid climate, pests and diseases are active, the Dragon Boat Festival to eat salted duck eggs, a symbol of health. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in ancient times.
Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven lodges soared in the center of the south, in the most "neutral" position throughout the year, as the "I Ching - Qian Gua" fifth line: "Flying Dragon in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is "flying dragon in the sky" auspicious day, the dragon and dragon boat culture has always been throughout the history of the Dragon Boat Festival heritage. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. Legend has it that Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu during the Warring States period, jumped into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to kill himself, and the Dragon Boat Festival has been regarded by the later generations as a festival to honor Qu Yuan.
Historical origin
The origin of the ancient traditional festivals is related to the ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, and the sky, calendar and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. Most of the ancient festivals were formed in the activities of the ancients who chose auspicious days to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and their ancestors for their kindness.
The early festival culture reflected the humanistic spirit of the ancients, such as the worship of nature and the remembrance of one's origins. A series of sacrificial activities contained the profound cultural connotations of respect for virtue and civilization of rites and music. The origin and development of festivals is a process of gradual formation, refinement and popularization.
The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival were different in the north and the south, and the activities of the Dragon Boat Festival in the pre-Qin era were seldom documented in the Central Plains, so there is no way to directly verify the origin of the festival in the existing documents. About the Dragon Boat Festival related text records, "Dragon Boat" two words, the earliest appeared in the Jin Dynasty, the "land and customs", but the Dragon Boat Festival customs have long been there, such as dragon boat racing rituals, has long existed.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Dragon Boat Festival