What is the significance of Dragon Boat Festival?

The significance of Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan.

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, 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.

Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it. In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday.

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, Dragon Boat Rowing: It is an important activity of Dragon Boat Festival, a ceremony of ancient dragon totem and a heritage. The ancestors divided the stars near the ecliptic into 28. Dragon Boat Festival, the eastern Long Xing just reached the southernmost tip, and the ancestors who believed in astronomy naturally sacrificed on this day, which is probably the source of the dragon boat race.

2. Eating Zongzi: The custom of eating Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival has been popular in China for thousands of years, and it has become one of the most influential and extensive folk food customs of the Chinese nation, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

3. Flying the kite: The kite is an aircraft that only uses air power by sticking paper or silk on a bamboo pole and pulling a long line on it. In southern China, children flying kites during the Dragon Boat Festival is called "flying disaster".

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Boat Festival