The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. For more than two thousand years, the Dragon Boat Festival has been a multi-ethnic national fitness, anti-epidemic, anti-drug, and health-loving folk festivals.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival and the Heavy Lunch Festival, is said to be the day of Qu Yuan, the great poet of ancient China and one of the world's four major cultural celebrities. For more than two thousand years, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month has become a traditional festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. According to historical records, in the second day of the fifth lunar month in 278 BC, the doctor of the Chu State and the patriotic poet Qu Yuan heard the message of the Qin army breaking through the capital of the Chu State. After the grief and indignation, the heart was like a knife, and decided to write the pendulum "Huaisha" and bouldering. Miluo River, to the country. The people along the Yangtze River have drawn boats to fight for salvage, to recruit souls along the water, and to put the scorpions into the river, so as to prevent the fish and shrimp from eating into his body. This custom has been here for more than two thousand years.

For thousands of years, Qu Yuan’s patriotic spirit and touching poetry have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. People "sorry and mourn, the world talks about it, and it is said that it is rumored." In the field of folk culture, the Chinese people have since closely linked the dragon boat races and eating scorpions of the Dragon Boat Festival to the memorial of Qu Yuan. As the influence of Qu Yuan continued to increase, the Dragon Boat Festival, which began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, gradually spread and became a festival of the Chinese nation.

There are many other names in China's Dragon Boat Festival, such as: Midday Festival, May Festival, Bath Lan Festival, Daughter's Day, Mid-Day Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Day and so on. Although the names are different, the customs of people around the world are similar. The main contents are: daughter returning to her family, wall clock, hanging calamus, wormwood, sachet, dragon boat, competition, hitting the ball, swinging, giving the child a realgar, drinking realgar, eating salted eggs, hazelnuts and seasonal fresh fruit. In addition to the disappearance of superstitious activities, the customs have spread to all parts of China and neighboring countries.