Customs before Dragon Boat Festival and its evolution

The custom before Dragon Boat Festival is to worship ancestors, pray for evil spirits and celebrate entertainment. The Dragon Boat Festival has integrated many kinds of folk customs in its historical development and evolution. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in customs content or details across the country. At present, the customs of Dragon Boat Festival mainly include dragon boat picking, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood, calamus, ancestor worship, washing herbal water, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boats, eating zongzi, flying kites, tying dragon boats, tying colored silk thread, smoking Atractylodes lancea and wearing sachets.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Mid-Day Festival, originated from the worship of natural phenomena in ancient times and evolved from Dragon Boat Festival. Mid-summer Dragon Boat Festival, where the Black Dragon flies south of the sky for seven nights, is the most "right" position in the whole year, such as the fifth theme of Yijing: "Flying Dragon 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. Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival that integrates ancestor worship, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating.

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 Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5th, and later generations 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. 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. According to statistics, the name of Dragon Boat Festival is the most popular among all traditional festivals in China, reaching more than 20, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Midsummer Festival, Ai Festival, Shangri-La Festival, May Festival, Acorus Festival, Tianyi Festival, Herbal Festival, Magnolia Festival, Noon Festival, Dila Festival and Zhengyang Festival.