The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. According to the "Jingchu year record" records, because of midsummer climbing, Shunyang on, May is midsummer, its first afternoon is the day of climbing Shunyang good weather, so the fifth day of May is also called "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "noon Day Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, bath Orchid Festival" and so on. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, originally for the ancient Baiyue area (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south of the area) worship the dragon totem festival held totem sacrifice, Baiyue land before the spring and Autumn there is in the lunar calendar on the fifth day of the fifth month in the form of dragon boat race tribal totem sacrifice custom. After the Warring States period of Chu (now Hubei) poet Qu Yuan in the day of holding stones to jump into the Miluo River suicide, the ruler to establish a loyal patriotic label as the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; In some areas, there are also statements to commemorate Wu Zixu and Cao E.

The Dragon Boat Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as the four major traditional festivals of the Han Chinese. Since ancient times, there have been dragon boat rowing and zongzi eating festival activities. Since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national holiday. In May 2006, The State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; In September 2009, UNESCO officially reviewed and approved the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival to be included in the World intangible Cultural Heritage, becoming the first Chinese festival to be included in the World intangible cultural Heritage.