The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The real origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival created by the ancestors of Wuyue in the south to worship the ancestors of dragons, which has evolved into various legends through historical development. The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival, originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena in ancient times and evolved from the Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Seven Nights of the Black Dragon rose to the south of the sky, which is an auspicious day for dragons to fly, that is, as the fifth divination in the Book of Changes said: Long Zaitian.

The real origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival created by the ancestors of Wuyue in the south to worship the ancestors of dragons, which has evolved into various legends through historical development. The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival, originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena in ancient times and evolved from the Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Seven Nights of the Black Dragon rose to the south of the sky, which is an auspicious day for dragons to fly, that is, as the fifth divination in the Book of Changes said: Long Zaitian.

Dragon Boat Festival was originally founded by the ancestors of southern wuyue, 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 over the sky" as an auspicious day to worship their ancestors and pray for evil spirits, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" into summer. 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.