The moral of Dragon Boat Racing on Dragon Boat Festival is to pray for blessings, good weather, to get rid of evil spirits, to make trouble, and to have everything go well.

Dragon Boat Racing is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is an ancient festival of dragon totem sacrifice. It is also said that the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race is to commemorate the Qu Yuan, Qu Yuan jumped into the river to kill himself, the local people heard the news and immediately rowed a boat to rescue, but did not fish, in order to send condolences, people swinging boat on the river, and then gradually developed into a Dragon Boat Race.

Before the Spring and Autumn period, the ancient Yue ethnic group to the dragon as a totem, in order to show that they are the "dragon species" identity, in addition to the custom of breaking the hair and tattooing, will be in the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, held a grand totem festival, which will be similar to today's dragon boat games, which is the origin of the custom of dragon boat racing.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival:

The origin of the ancient traditional festivals is related to the ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, and the sky, calendar and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings: one is the belief in heaven and earth, and the other is the belief in ancestors. Most of the ancient festivals were formed in the activities of the ancients who chose auspicious days to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and their ancestors for their kindness.

The early festival culture reflects the humanistic spirit of the ancients, such as nature worship, solid foundation and thinking of the source; a series of sacrificial activities, which contains the profound cultural connotation of respect and virtue, rites and music civilization. The origin and development of festivals is a process of gradual formation, refinement and popularization.