Duanwu Festival Dragon Boat Racing Folk Tales: Dragon Boat Racing is said to have originated in ancient times, the people of Chu could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan threw himself into the river to die, and many people rowed a boat to catch up with the rescue.
Dragon boat racing, is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said to have originated from the ancient time when many people in the state 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 and save him. They scrambled and chased to Dongting Lake when they disappeared. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it. The dragon boat was used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. Racing habits, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu. Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival.
In Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, Sichuan area, the Dragon Boat Festival is divided into big Dragon Boat Festival and small Dragon Boat Festival. The small Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, and the big Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifteenth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. Dragon Boat Festival is a very important traditional festival in China, and there are various customs in different places. Among the many customs, the most important is the custom of rowing dragon boats.
Meaning of the name of the festival:
Duanwu Festival, originated in China, was originally a festival in which the ancient ancestors sacrificed to the dragon ancestor in the form of dragon boat races. Because of the legend of the Warring States period of the Chu poet Qu Yuan in the Dragon Boat Festival jumped Miluo River to kill himself, and later people will also be the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; individual places also commemorate the Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zi Tui and other sayings.
Overall, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Jiangzhe region of Wuyue tribal dragon totem rituals, injected into the summer seasonal "disease prevention" fashion, the Dragon Boat Festival as a "bad month and bad day" in the north, attached to commemorate the commemoration of qu yuan and other historical figures to commemorate the content of the last Formation of today's Dragon Boat Festival cultural connotations.