The Dragon Boat Festival, as a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, carries a heavy history and culture, and contains a rich humanistic spirit, in which we can y feel the long history and profoundness of Chinese culture. Since ancient times, people sing and dance to express their blessings at this time. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are many different opinions, there are "Qu Yuan said", "Wu Zixu said", "Cao E said", etc., but "Qu Yuan said But "Qu Yuan" is the most recognized.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival - Commemorating Qu Yuan said

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duan Yang Festival and the Festival of the Heavy Woo, is rumored to be the day when Qu Yuan, one of the world's four most culturally renowned people, was martyred by the Bioluo River, one of the great poets of ancient China. Qu Ping (about 339 BC ~ about 278 BC) word Yuan, usually known as Qu Yuan, but also since the cloud name Zhengzhe, the word Lingjun, Han nationality, the end of the Warring States period of the State of Chu Danyang (today's Zigui, Hubei Province) people, Chu Wu Wang Xiongtong's son of the descendants of Qu Yuan. Although Qu Yuan was loyal to King Huai of Chu, he was repeatedly ostracized, and after the death of King Huai, he was exiled because King Hai Xiang listened to slander, and finally died in Miluo River.

Qu Yuan is one of China's greatest romantic poets, the earliest known famous poet in China, and a world cultural celebrity. He created the genre of "Chushu" (楚辞) and the tradition of "Vanilla Beauty" (香草美人)。 His representative works include "Li Sao" and "Nine Songs".

In China's history, the Duanwu Festival in honor of Qu Yuan has a history of more than 1500 years. According to legend, after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people heard the news and immediately rowed a boat to rescue him, but he never saw Qu Yuan's body until he reached the Dongting Lake. At that time, coinciding with the rainy day, the boat on the lake together gathered at the shore of the pavilion. When people learned that it was to salvage the wise minister Qu Daifu, once again braved the rain, scrambling to row into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to send their condolences, people swing boat on the river, and then gradually developed into a dragon boat race. The people are afraid of the river fish eat his body, they have to go home to bring the rice ball into the river, so as to avoid fish and shrimp spoiled Qu Yuan's body, and later became the custom of eating rice dumplings.

Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival - Dragon Boat Race

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were in mourning, and they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. Fishermen rowed their boats back and forth across the river in search of his real body. Nowadays, a few days before and after the Dragon Boat Festival, all over the country, we have to "race dragon boats". Dragon boat racing, also known as dragon boat racing, has a history of more than 1,500 years in China, and has now been included in the national intangible cultural heritage list.

Alternatively: all parts of China have the custom of Dragon Boat Festival, which is the "Dragon Boat Festival in the hometown of Qu Yuan" in Zigui County, Hubei Province, Huangshi City, "West Seaside Divine Boat Club" and Hunan Province. Miluo River Dragon Boat Customs", Jiangsu "Suzhou Dragon Boat Customs" is the most characteristic and representative.