The culture or spirit contained in the Dragon Boat Festival.

The culture contained in the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival created by the ancestors of Baiyue in ancient times to worship their ancestors. 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.

Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancestors of Baiyue in the south. They chose "Dragon Ascending to Heaven" as an auspicious day to worship their ancestors. The Dragon Boat Festival is regarded as "a bad month and a bad day", which originated in the northern part of the Central Plains and was attached 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.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a mixture of various folk customs, such as avoiding evil spirits and epidemic prevention, so some people think that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient people's festival of "avoiding evil spirits and epidemic prevention". China has a long history and profound culture.

Ancient festivals are important carriers of traditional culture, and their formation contains profound and rich cultural connotations. Ancient festivals attach importance to the belief in ancestor gods and sacrificial activities, and the belief in ancestor gods is the core of ancient traditional festivals. It is not a folk festival passed down from generation to generation to avoid evil and prevent epidemic.

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Qu Yuan was a minister in Chu Huaiwang during the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated increasing talents and empowering people to make them rich, and advocated joint resistance to Qin, which was strongly opposed by others. Qu Yuan was exiled to the Yuan and Hunan basins.

Later, Qin Jun attacked Kyoto, Chu and Qu Yuan saw his motherland being invaded. On May 5th, after writing his masterpiece Huai Sha, he died in the Miluo River and wrote a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life. ?

The people of Chu were very sad when they learned of Qu Yuan's death. They threw rice balls to prevent fish from eating Qu Yuan's body. Later, people wrapped rice with neem leaves and colored silk to develop brown seeds. On the fifth day of May every year, people will hold dragon boat races, eat zongzi and drink realgar wine to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. ?

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