Tomb-Sweeping Day Dragon Boat Festival is now regarded as a national holiday. What's the point?

Dragon Boat Festival-Passing Patriotic Feelings

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is an important traditional festival in China, also called Duanyang Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Yulan Festival, Pujie Festival and Daughter's Day.

According to research, the Dragon Boat Festival, as a festival, was formed in the Han Dynasty. Since ancient times, the main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival have been "washing blue soup", hanging mugwort leaves and calamus, drinking medicinal liquor, eating zongzi and racing dragon boats. Among them, "eating zongzi" and "dragon boat racing" are the most influential. Because of the influential folklore of "in memory of Qu Yuan", it adds a strong cultural connotation to the Dragon Boat Festival.

Tao Huang, a folklorist, said that the Dragon Boat Festival has great vitality because it adapts to the cultural connotation of modern society: "First, it cares about life and stresses hygiene. Most of the Dragon Boat Festival customs have the functions of disease prevention, epidemic prevention and health care, so some people call it' Health Festival'. Secondly, to enhance people's patriotism, dragon boat race is a competitive activity with great momentum and cooperative spirit, which is conducive to physical fitness and people's unity; Coupled with the content of commemorating Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit, festivals have become an important ceremony for China people to convey their patriotic feelings and spirit. Third, the Dragon Boat Festival, like other folk festivals in China, has the function of promoting family friendship and close interpersonal relationships. "