Dragon Boat Festival was originally founded by the ancestors of southern wuyue, to worship the ancestors of dragons and pray for evil spirits. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5th 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 push.

Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "flying dragons over the sky" as an auspicious day to worship their ancestors and pray for evil spirits, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" into summer. The Dragon Boat Festival, regarded as "bad month and bad day", began in the northern part of the Central Plains and was attached to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures.

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Dragon Boat Festival and dragon boat culture have always run through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival. According to experts' research, the prerequisite for dragon boat racing must be in areas rich in rice and numerous rivers and ports, which is the characteristic of the southern coastal areas of China. In ancient China, people in the southern water network area often used boats as production and transportation tools.

In the process of catching fish and shrimp, people compare the catch of fish and meet in rowing competitions in their leisure time, which is the embryonic form of ancient horse racing.

According to the prehistoric culture of Hemudu site and Tianluoshan site, canoes and wooden paddles existed as early as 5,000 to 7,000 years ago. The original prototype of the dragon boat was a canoe carved on a canoe, and later it developed into a dragon boat made of wooden boards. Among the records of the origin of dragon boat in ancient books, it first appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

According to this, it can be speculated that the custom of Dragon Boat Festival may be only popular among all ethnic groups in wuyue at first, and then the Wuyue culture gradually merged with the Central Plains culture, and this custom spread to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the northern regions. The formation of the Dragon Boat Festival custom can be said to be the product of the integration of North and South customs, and it has injected new content with the development of history.