The Dragon Boat Festival is said to honor which ancient Chinese scholar?

Qu Yuan.

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu grieved so much that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to him. Fishermen rowed up their boats and went back and forth on the river to salvage his real body. A fisherman took out for Qu Yuan prepared rice balls, eggs and other food, "flop, flop" thrown into the river, said that the fish and lobsters and crabs eat enough, will not go to bite the body of Dr. Qu. People followed suit.

An old doctor brought a altar of yellow wine poured into the river, said to be drug stunned dragon water beasts, so as not to harm Dr. Qu. Later, for fear of rice balls for the dragon eat, people came up with a neem leaf wrapped rice, wrapped in colorful silk, developed into a brown.

After that, on the fifth day of the fifth month of every year, there is a dragon boat race, eat zongzi, drink xionghuang wine custom; as a way to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

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Customs:

1, dragon boat racing

Legend has it that it originated in ancient times, the people of Chu could not bear to see the wise minister Qu Yuan throw himself into the river to die, and many people paddled their boats to catch up to save him. They scrambled, chased to Dongting Lake when they disappeared. After that, they rowed dragon boats on May 5 every year to commemorate it.

2, eat zongzi

Zongzi in the Jin Dynasty was officially designated as the Dragon Boat Festival food. At the beginning of May every year, the Chinese people have to pack zongzi, packages of zongzi color varieties are extremely diverse. Eat zongzi custom, for thousands of years, in China prevailed, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia countries.

3, Pei Xiangbao

Duanwu Festival children Pei Xiangbao, legend has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, is actually used for lapel head embellishment decoration. The scented capsule inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, delicate and lovely.

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