Dragon Boat Festival Information Brief Introduction of Dragon Boat Festival on the third day.

1, Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival. , from the worship of astronomical phenomena, evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the black dragon rises to the south of the sky for seven nights, which is an auspicious day for the dragon to fly. As the fifth poem in the Book of Changes says, "The dragon is in the sky". At noon, Long Xing is both a "win" and a "right" and a symbol of good luck. Its origin covers 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 are integrated, and festival customs are rich in content. Picking dragon boats and eating zongzi are two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

Dragon Boat Festival, originally created by ancestors, is a festival to worship the dragon ancestors and pray for evil spirits. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5th and committed suicide. Later, people 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. Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "flying dragons in the sky" as an auspicious day to worship the dragon ancestors and pray for good luck to ward off evil spirits, and injected the "epidemic prevention fashion" into the summer season; The Dragon Boat Festival, regarded as "bad month and bad day", began in the northern part of the Central Plains and was attached to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures.

3. The original meaning of "Duan" in "Dragon Boat Festival" is "Zheng" and "Wu" is "Zhong". The same is true of Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of Dragon Boat Festival) and Zhongzheng. At noon this day, that's right. In addition, the end also means "early", so the first noon in May is called Dragon Boat Festival. The ancients took heavenly stems and earthly branches as the carrier, and the heavens and the earth supported the way of the earth, and set up heavenly stems and earthly branches to contract the fate of heaven and earth. Ancient people used heavenly stems and earthly branches to represent calendar year, calendar month, calendar day and calendar time. According to the calendar, according to the order of the twelve earthly branches, May is called "noon month" and noon day is called "heavy noon", so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang". On midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the flying dragon is in the sky, and Long Xing is in the position of "Zhongzheng", which means good luck.