As a traditional Chinese festival, we are very familiar with the Dragon Boat Festival, which is a mandatory festival every year.

But do you know why we celebrate Dragon Boat Festival every year? What is the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival? It is in honor of who? The following one to understand.

Now that it's almost June, it's time for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday.

As a traditional Chinese festival, we are very familiar with the Dragon Boat Festival, is a must every year.

But do you know why we celebrate Dragon Boat Festival every year? What is the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival? It is in honor of who? The following one to understand.

A, 2019 Dragon Boat Festival time

2019 Dragon Boat Festival time is on June 7, Friday.

The Dragon Boat Festival holiday is from June 7 to June 9, and the June 7 Dragon Boat Festival is a legal holiday.

Second, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival, as early as the Qu Yuan period existed, as early as the ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival this day for the ancient Vietnamese ancestor festivals, of course, that time there is no name of the Dragon Boat, and then gradually changed into a festival to get rid of diseases and prevent disasters, and then later there is a Dragon Boat Festival the name of the festival, but also to commemorate the memory of a few ancestors, respectively, is the Qu Yuan, Wu Zixu, Cao'e.

The Dragon Boat Festival can not only be called the Dragon Boat Festival, it is called up to more than 20, such as the Duanwu Festival, Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, when the five floods, Tianzhong Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Calamus Festival, Pu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Qu Yuan Day, Noon Festival, Daughter's Festival, Di La Festival, Poet's Festival, Dragon Festival, Noon, Festival of Lights, the Festival of the Five Eggs, and so on.

Three, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate who

1, Qu Yuan

Qu Yuan, Minister of the Spring and Autumn Chu Huai Wang, Chu was destroyed by the Qin, Qu Yuan could not bear to give up their motherland, on the fifth day of the fifth month, holding a stone Miluo River death, is now the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate the Qu Yuan the most widely circulated, the most influential a statement.

2, Wu Zixu

In the Zhejiang area, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the Spring and Autumn Period Wu Zixu.

Wu Zixu was originally from Chu, his father and brother were killed by the king of Chu, and then he defected to Wu, to help Wu destroyed Chu, when the king of Chu had died Zixu dug up the tomb and flogged the body of 300, after the Prince of Wu Fu-chai succeeded to the throne, the king of Wu listened to slander to set up the Zixu, the body of the fifth of May into the river.

3, Cao E

Cao E is the people of the Eastern Han Dynasty, his father drowned in the river, a few days to see the body, the filial daughter of Cao E was only fourteen years old at the time, in the fifth of May also threw into the river, five days later to hold out the father's body.

Four, what are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, eat zongzi.

Duanwu Festival to eat zongzi is a ritual existence, and eat zongzi have the difference between the north and south, generally the south mostly eat meat zongzi, the north to eat jujube zongzi.

2, dragon boat racing.

Duanwu Festival many places have dragon boat racing, but generally in the south there, the north is very little.

3, wear a scented bag.

People will use five-color silk thread to make a variety of incense bags containing vermilion, andrographis, incense, not only mosquito repellent effect, according to legend, also has the meaning of avoiding evil spirits and driving away the plague.

4, Hanging Ai.

Duanwu Festival families will use the male yellow wine sprinkled courtyard, and then the calamus, moxa hanging in the hall, used to drive away miasma.

5, point xionghuang wine.

Duanwu Festival, people will be soaked in wine, with a pen in the ears of small children, nose, brain, wrists, ankles, etc., the purpose is to prevent mosquitoes, snakes, scorpions, centipedes, etc. on the body.

The above is the introduction of the Dragon Boat Festival, for the Dragon Boat Festival believe that many people's first impression is to eat dumplings to commemorate the Qu Yuan, but in fact, different regions, the Dragon Boat Festival is not the same way to commemorate the people are not the same Oh!