When is the Dragon Boat Festival? What are the customs and characteristics? What is the origin of Dragon Boat Festival?

1, the Dragon Boat Festival is the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is also called Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival, Tianzhong Festival and so on. It is a traditional folk festival in China, with customs and characteristics, mainly including dragon boat race, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon and washing herbs. Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China, and it is a folk festival integrating blessing, entertainment and food.

Dragon Boat Festival, originally founded by ancient ancestors, is a festival 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 tui. Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "flying dragons to heaven", worshiping the dragon ancestors on auspicious days, praying for evil spirits and injecting them into the summer season 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.