The Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is one of the largest traditional festivals in my country. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Dragon Boat Festival. The meaning of "Duan" is the same as "the beginning". Calling it "Duan Wu" is also called "the fifth day of the lunar month". The word "五" in the Dragon Boat Festival is connected with the word "Wu". According to the order of the earthly branches, May is the "noon" month. And because noon is "Yang Chen", the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duan Yang". On May 5th, the month and day are both five, so it is called Chongwu, also called Chongwu. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many other names, such as: Summer Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Girl's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Dila, Poet's Day, etc.

There are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, which indirectly illustrates the divergence of the origins of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. This is exactly what happened. Regarding the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, there are at least four or five theories today, such as: the theory of commemorating Qu Yuan; the theory of Wuyue national totem sacrifice; the theory of starting from the Summer Solstice Festival in three generations; the theory of driving away evil moons and evil days, etc. So far, the most widely influential view on the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is the theory of commemorating Qu Yuan. In the field of folk culture, Chinese people associate the dragon boat racing and eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival with Qu Yuan. It is said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the local people injured him and died, so they tried their best to rescue him in boats because of the custom of boat racing. It is also said that people often put food into the water to worship Qu Yuan, but most of them were eaten by dragons. Later, they used neem because of Qu Yuan's reminder. Rice is wrapped in leaves and colored silk is wrapped around it to make the later rice dumplings.

The main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include: eating rice dumplings, inserting mugwort or calamus on the door to ward off evil spirits, tying a thread of longevity, drinking realgar wine or using it for disinfection, dragon boat racing, etc. Zongzi is also called "corner millet" and "tube rice dumpling". The former is named because of its angular shape and sticky rice inside. The latter, as the name suggests, is probably cooked with rice in a bamboo tube. Eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival has been very popular in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. This food is eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival and Summer Solstice festivals every year. Zongzi is also a kind of holiday gift. By the Tang and Song Dynasties, rice dumplings had become extremely famous and were often sold in the market. Nowadays, we still have to eat a few rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. There are many varieties of zongzi, divided into north and south, and east and west. In the south, red dates, peanuts, bacon, etc. are often mixed with glutinous rice to make it. In the north, dates, preserved fruits, etc. are often used as the fillings of the rice dumplings. The little rice dumpling seems to have become a symbol of Chinese tradition and occupies a certain position in people's hearts. In the past, there was also the custom of hiding at noon during the Dragon Boat Festival. This custom originated from a belief that the fifth month is the "evil month", and plague spreads. The double fifth day is an unlucky day, so parents are all under the age of one on this day. The children were taken to their grandmother's house to escape the disaster, so they called them Zangwu. This is undoubtedly a concept arising from the underdevelopment of science in ancient times. Because the heat of May is approaching, mosquitoes breed, and infectious diseases are prone to occur among people without medical and sanitary equipment. This brings a kind of fear to people, and thus the custom of hiding at noon has emerged. , some of the ancient customs of this festival have disappeared with social changes, but customs such as eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats are still popular.