Information about Wu Rui Festival Information about Dragon Boat Festival

1 The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival and Duanyang. In addition, there are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: Noon Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Magnolia Festival, Daughter's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Dila Festival, Poet's Day and Dragon Festival.

2. There are many opinions about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: in memory of Qu Yuan; In memory of Wu Zixu's theory; In memory of Cao E; From three generations of summer solstice; The theory of exorcising evil days on the moon, the theory of national totem sacrifice in wuyue and so on.

Celebrating Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of China people for more than two thousand years. Because of its vast territory, numerous nationalities, stories and legends, not only many different festival names have been produced, but also different customs exist in different places.

4. The contents mainly include: the daughter goes back to her parents' house, hangs a statue of Zhong Kui, welcomes the ghost boat, hides in the afternoon, hangs leaf symbols in the afternoon, hangs calamus and wormwood, swims in all diseases, wears sachets, prepares sacrificial bowls, races dragon boats, plays ball games, swings, paints realgar for children, drinks realgar wine and calamus wine, eats poisonous cakes, salted eggs and zongzi.

Some activities, such as dragon boat race, have gained new development, breaking through the time and geographical boundaries and becoming international sports events. Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China.