What is the origin of Dragon Boat Festival?

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "Dragon Ascending to Heaven" as an auspicious day to worship the ancestors of the Dragon, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" in summer. Dragon Boat Festival is considered as an "evil moon day", which originated in the northern part of the Central Plains to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures. The formation of the Dragon Boat Festival custom can be said to be the product of the integration of North and South customs.

Dragon Boat Festival, originally founded by the ancestors of southern wuyue, is a festival to worship the ancestors of dragons. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5th. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.

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Special diet for Dragon Boat Festival:

1, general manager

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in China. There are many shapes and varieties of zongzi, such as regular triangle, regular quadrangle, pointed triangle, square and strip. Due to the different flavors in different parts of China, there are mainly two kinds: sweet and salty.

2.realgar wine?

The custom of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River valley. White wine or yellow wine brewed from ground realgar. Realgar can be used as an antidote and insecticide. Therefore, the ancients believed that realgar could inhibit snakes, scorpions and other pests. "Good can kill all poisons, eliminate all evils and cure all poisons. When a man turns his horse upside down, the tiger and the wolf crouch in the mountains, and all kinds of poisons enter the Sichuan water to avoid it. "

3. make a cake?

Dragon Boat Festival is a grand festival for Korean people in Yanbian, Jilin Province. The most representative food on this day is sweet cake. Caking is to put mugwort and glutinous rice in a big wooden trough carved with a single wood and beat it with a long-handled wood. This kind of food has national characteristics and can add festive atmosphere.

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