What is the legend of Dragon Boat Festival?

The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. Most of the ancient festivals were formed in the activities that the ancients chose auspicious days to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and the ancestors for their kindness.

The early festival culture embodies the humanistic spirit of the ancients, such as advocating nature and seeking the source. A series of sacrificial activities contain profound cultural connotations, such as respecting morality, ritual and music civilization, etc. The origin and development of festivals is a process of gradual formation, subtle improvement and popularization.

Textual research on Dragon Boat Festival;

Mr. Wen Yiduo believes that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from totem worship in the article "Dragon Boat Festival Examination". Mr. Wen Yiduo believes that it is this dragon totem that later evolved into totem worship of the whole nation; It was at the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony that I gradually got into the habit of rowing dragon boats. According to the prehistoric culture of Hemudu site and Tianluoshan site, canoes and wooden paddles existed as early as 5,000 to 7,000 years ago.

The original prototype of the dragon boat was a canoe carved on a canoe, and later it developed into a dragon boat made of wooden boards. A large number of cultural relics and archaeological studies unearthed in modern times show that as early as ancient times, our ancestors created a splendid high civilization. Unearthed cultural relics and historical legends show that the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival created by them to worship their ancestors.