Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival and Tianzhong Festival. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival.
On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon spent seven nights in Nanzhong, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "The flying dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.
Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and later generations 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.
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs blend with each other, and the content or details of customs are different due to different regional cultures.
Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it.
In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.
Dragon Boat Festival, which originated in China, was originally a festival in which ancient ancestors offered sacrifices to their ancestors in the form of dragon boat races. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, threw himself into the Miluo River during the Dragon Boat Festival. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some places, there are sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui.
Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the dragon totem sacrifice of wuyue tribes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" in summer. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the "bad month and bad day" in the north, accompanied by the commemorative content of Qu Yuan and other historical figures, and finally formed the cultural connotation of today's Dragon Boat Festival.