I. Dragon Boat Racing

Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Racing at Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient time when people of Chu could not bear to see Qu Yuan, a wise minister, throw himself into the river to die, and many people rowed their boats to catch up to save him. They scrambled and chased to Dongting Lake when they lost sight of him. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. The dragon boat is used to disperse the fish in the river so that the fish will not eat Qu Yuan's body.

Two, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang

The legend says that after the death of Qu Yuan, the people of Chu grieved abnormally, have flocked to the Miluo River to mourn Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed up their boats and salvaged his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out for Qu Yuan prepared rice balls, eggs and other food, "flop, flop" thrown into the river, said that the fish and lobsters and crabs eat enough, will not go to bite the body of Dr. Qu. People followed suit.

An old doctor brought a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be the drug stunned dragon water beasts, so as not to harm Dr. Qu. Later, for fear of rice balls for the dragon to eat, people came up with a neem leaf wrapped rice, wrapped in colorful silk, developed into dumplings.

Expanded:

The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. Duanwu is also known as Duanwu, Duanyang. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many aliases, such as: Wuzhi Festival, heavy five festival, May Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Daughter Festival, Tianzhong Festival, the ground wax, Poet's Day, Dragon Day and so on. Although the name is different, but on the whole, the people around the custom of the festival or more than different.

Over the Dragon Boat Festival, is the Chinese people more than two thousand years of traditional habits, due to the vast area, many ethnic groups, coupled with many stories and legends, so not only produced a number of different names of the festival, but also has different customs.

The contents of the main: daughter back to her mother's home, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcome the ghost ship, avoiding the afternoon, the post of the afternoon leaf amulet, hanging calamus, wormwood, swim in the hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to liling, dragon boat race, martial arts, hitting the ball, swinging, to the children coated with xionghuang, drinking xionghuang wine, calamus wine, eat five poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fruits, etc., in addition to superstitious colors of the activities have disappeared, the rest of the so far passed down in China! and neighboring countries. Some activities, such as dragon boat races, have been newly developed, breaking through time and geographical boundaries to become international sporting events.

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