The Significance and Origin of Dragon Boat Festival

1 and the original meaning of "Duan" in "Dragon Boat Festival" is "Zheng" and "Wu" is "Zhong". "Dragon Boat Festival" (the fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival) and "Zhongzheng" also mean that noon on this day is the right place. 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.

2. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival: The Dragon Boat Festival was originally created by ancient ancestors to worship the ancestors of dragons 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 their ancestors and pray for evil spirits, which injected the summer seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics"; 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.