The origin of Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice. The formation of the customs and habits of the Dragon Boat Festival is related to primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, the calendar of cadres and branches, and the astronomical phenomena in the south where the Black Dragon and the Seven Nights are located. The ancient astrology culture in China has a long history and is profound. The ancients began to explore the mysteries of the universe very early, and thus deduced a complete and profound star-watching culture.

Ancient festivals are carriers of inheriting ancient culture, and the origin of ancient festivals is closely related to ancient culture. In midsummer afternoon, the black dragon rose to the south of Zhongtian for seven nights, which was called "the flying dragon in the sky" by the Book of Changes. Long Xing is in the "center" and "center" position, which is a symbol of good luck.

"Dragon" is the primitive belief of ancient ancestors. The ancestors held a grand totem festival in the form of dragon boat picking every midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, in order to repay the kindness of the dragon ancestors, pray for happiness and restrain evil from causing disasters. Although the situation of ancient sacrificial ceremonies is obscure, we can still find some ancient customs from later festivals. Dragon Boat Festival culture fully embodies the Chinese nation's natural view of "harmony between man and nature".

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Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Due to the vast territory and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names are produced, but also different customs exist in different places. The Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer is an auspicious day for Feilong. Dragon Boat Festival in the form of dragon boat race is an important theme of Dragon Boat Festival, which is still popular in the southern coastal areas of China. In addition, a series of Dragon Boat Festival customs are derived from numbers of yin and yang and seasons.

The ancients also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as an auspicious year, which coincided with the summer solstice, and called it "Dragon Boat Festival", which is said to be "once in a blue moon". Summer is a season of struggle between yin and yang. Yang goes up and Yin is forced down. In the afternoon, the yang is healthy and the yin is afraid of evil.

Many Dragon Boat Festival customs handed down from ancient times have the contents of eliminating yin evil, eliminating diseases and preventing epidemic, such as hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boat water, tying five-color silk thread to ward off evil spirits, washing herbal water, smoking Atractylodes rhizome to eliminate diseases and prevent epidemic, and so on.