Acorus calamus and Artemisia argyi have always been regarded as having the dual values of witchcraft and medicine, so a series of customs have been formed. On the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood leaves are often made into wormwood, Shi Tian wormwood and Ai Hu. Guang Ji, written in the old age, is quoted from miscellaneous notes in the old age. "In the Dragon Boat Festival, wormwood is regarded as a tiger, even as big as black beans, or the ribbon is cut as a tiger, and it is worn with wormwood leaves." The original intention of making Artemisia argyi and Artemisia argyi is that people believe in the witchcraft function of Artemisia argyi and Acorus calamus, and pray that Aipu can drive away diseases for relatives and resist ominous. Similarly, those Dragon Boat Festival ropes tied to children's arms, bed curtains, cradles, or dedicated to elders, no matter how complicated their nicknames or shapes, have only one same function: eliminating disasters and diseases, blessing health and prolonging life.
Second, distinctive agricultural cultural characteristics
China is a country based on agriculture, and the choice of various festivals is bound to be closely related to agriculture. Choosing the festival date at the age of 20 is a special way for China agricultural society to express the law of production and life. Corresponding to the characteristics of spring planting, summer hoeing, autumn harvest and winter storage in agricultural production, the festivals of folk life in China have the characteristics of spring prayer, summer sting, autumn newspaper and winter wax. The choice of Dragon Boat Festival can best reflect this feature: in summer, farming is getting busy, the harvest season has not yet arrived, and the green and yellow are not connected. In hot summer, the heat is unbearable and diseases are easy to breed. Thus, in this hot summer season, the Dragon Boat Festival with the main purpose of "collecting" and "uncovering books" came into being. And the contents of its holiday customs, such as hanging moxa sticks, drinking medicinal liquor and tying dragon boat festival ropes, are also to ward off evil spirits, plagues and poisons. From these festivals, we can easily find that they are inextricably linked with agriculture, and at the same time, they also reflect the unique agricultural cultural characteristics of local festivals.
Third, strong patriotism.
China folk culture clearly shows the recognition of honesty, loyalty and social responsibility, which is the key to the formation and maintenance of patriotism and national cohesion. Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival are both related to commemorating Qu Yuan. During the formation of the Dragon Boat Festival, there were opinions about commemorating Qu Yuan, Gou Jian, Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zhitui, but why people finally chose Qu Yuan as the only person to commemorate the Dragon Boat Festival is inseparable from Qu Yuan's patriotic feelings and concern for the people. In the history of China, no poet was loved by people like Qu Yuan. The premise of this kind of love first comes from Qu Yuan's strong love for the people and the country. Secondly, Qu Yuan's patriotism and love for the people is deeply attached to the people's deep attachment and love for their own nation, as well as mutual trust and help. Because of this, folk people sympathize with Qu Yuan's misfortune and fully accept, praise and respect him. The custom of dragon boat racing and eating zongzi, which has lasted for thousands of years, has turned people's reverence and praise for Qu Yuan into an eternal conclusion that is deeply rooted in people's hearts, and made Qu Yuan's spirit a symbol of our national patriotism. Mr. Wen Yiduo's exposition has become the best interpretation of the strong patriotic cultural connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival: "Only the Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient festival,' as old as China people', which shows how inseparable it is with the lives of the people of China, and only the people of China have given such an important festival to Qu Yuan, which shows how important Qu Yuan's personality plays in their lives. Only after Qu Yuan's death did the people of China have to embed his name in a festival that had nothing to do with him, which shows how people can't live without him. Dragon Boat Festival is a people's festival. The combination of Qu Yuan and the Dragon Boat Festival proves that Qu Yuan and the people were combined in the past, and also ensures that Qu Yuan and the people will be combined forever in the future.