Duanwu Festival (the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar), also known as the Duanyang Festival, Dragon Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Day in the middle of the Festival, etc., is a traditional festival of Chinese folklore. The Dragon Boat Festival originates from the worship of heavenly signs and evolved from the sacrifice of dragon totems in ancient times.
Duanwu in midsummer, the Dragon seven lodging soared to the south in the sky, is the day of the Dragon, that is, as the "I Ching - Qian Gua" lines of the fifth line of the lines said: "Flying Dragon in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Star both "to get in" and "get positive", in the position of great good fortune, Enshi Pu also, the Dragon Virtue. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects of the content, contains a profound and rich cultural connotation.
In the development of the inheritance of a variety of folklore as a whole, the festival is rich in customary content. Dragon boat and rice dumplings are the two major rituals of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been inherited from ancient times in China and are still practiced today.