"On May 5th, it's Duanyang, with Ai in the door ..." What festival is this song about?

"On May 5th, it was Duanyang, with moxa sticks at the door, full of incense, eating zongzi and sprinkling sugar ..." A song sang the traditional festival of China culture-Dragon Boat Festival.

After thousands of years of development, the Dragon Boat Festival has formed many customs. Besides the lyrics, there are dragon boat rowing, wearing colorful silk thread, wearing sachets, drinking Pu wine, realgar wine, playing polo, offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, dancing Zhong Kui, fighting grass and so on.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon spent seven nights in Nanzhong, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "The flying dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs blend with each other, and the content or details of customs are different due to different regional cultures.