The Simple Origin of Dragon Boat Festival

It is said that Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5th, and later generations also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs blend with each other, and the content or details of customs are different due to different regional cultures.

The meaning of festival names

The original meaning of "Duan" in "Dragon Boat Festival" is "Zheng" and "Wu" is "Zhong". "Dragon Boat Festival" and "Chiang Kai-shek" are also right, and noon on this day is right in the middle. The ancients took heavenly stems and earthly branches as the carrier, and the heavenly stem carried the way of heaven, and the earth supported the way of the earth. Heavenly stems and earthly branches was established to contract the fate of heaven and earth, and the times are universal in heavenly stems and earthly branches.

In midsummer afternoon, the flying dragon is in the sky. At this time, Long Xing is in the south middle school, which is the most "suitable" position to run on Sundays all year round. It is both "right" and "right" and a symbol of good luck. The ancients always advocated the middle way and the right way, and the "middle way" was vividly displayed here. In addition, the end also means "early", so the first noon of the fifth month is also called Dragon Boat Festival. ?