What is the purpose of applying for the Dragon Boat Festival?

"It's sunny on May 5th, and young people are flying around the river." When it comes to Qu Yuan, Zongzi and Dragon Boat Festival, these people and things are remembered again. As a culture with national characteristics, the Dragon Boat Festival has been branded with heavy spiritual meaning by history, which is its own value. As a legal festival, it reminds China people of the vicissitudes of life that happened in China on the same day thousands of years later, and feels the long history of national culture. This is an era in which history is constantly forgotten. Because more people like to pay attention to the present, think about the future, and don't want to waste energy looking back, so many things are lost unconsciously. The loss of national culture is an obvious manifestation. How many people will think of Dr. Zhu's unyielding and noble during the Dragon Boat Festival? How many people will feel the same way about that dusty history? It doesn't matter when you can't remember the Dragon Boat Festival, but if you, as a China native, don't know who Qu Yuan is and what the Dragon Boat Festival is, it's not just your own sorrow, but the great sorrow of China culture now. People often don't cherish what they have, and when others come to grab it, you just start to look at it and realize that it is so important to you. China people re-recognize the Dragon Boat Festival, not because of its cultural connotation, but in a way that makes people feel helpless. Four years ago, South Korea's "Gangneung Ono Festival" was declared by UNESCO as "a masterpiece of oral and intangible heritage of mankind", which caused an uproar throughout the country. Beliefs that were taken for granted in people's minds were plundered. Whether out of national feelings or admiration for national culture, China people began to realize that the Dragon Boat Festival is not only a solar term, but also an indispensable part of national culture. Since then, the protection of national culture has been put on the agenda, and one of the important ways is to make the Dragon Boat Festival recognized by the world as the culture of the Chinese nation. Nowadays, the three provinces and four places have jointly "packaged" and put forward the requirement of applying for the Dragon Boat Festival with Hubei Province as the representative. The public may be relieved that the Dragon Boat Festival seems to belong to us again. However, the purpose of applying for the World Heritage of the Dragon Boat Festival is certainly not to relieve China people's worries and unwillingness about the success of applying for the World Heritage of the Korean Dragon Boat Festival, nor to let the world know what the stories of the China Dragon Boat Festival are and how the traditional culture of China is embodied in the Dragon Boat Festival. The ultimate goal of applying for the Dragon Boat Festival is not to let others know us clearly, but to let us know ourselves clearly and let China people learn to pay attention to and value their own culture. A nation's self-confidence is not based on external recognition, but on everyone's inner belief in national spirit and culture, and then accumulated through years of washing. The decline of a nation is not because of its poverty, but because of its spiritual poverty. When its soul began to be forgotten by future generations, it began to rot from the inside without external damage. On the Dragon Boat Festival, when you taste delicious zongzi, maybe everyone in China should think about it, because the Dragon Boat Festival is more than just a festival.