What is there to be happy about the Dragon Boat Festival?

The establishment of the Dragon Boat Festival is related to the traditional agricultural people's emphasis on solar terms. On the fifth day of May, the temperature rose and the weather began to enter the hot summer period. At this time, all kinds of pests and five poisons breed, and the people set up the Dragon Boat Festival to ward off evil spirits, avoid poison, prevent diseases and epidemic prevention. Drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival, hanging wormwood and wormwood leaves, and smoking Atractylodes macrocephala and Angelica dahurica are to ward off evil spirits. Therefore, the original intention of setting up the Dragon Boat Festival is to celebrate, not a sacrificial festival like Tomb-Sweeping Day.

It is a legendary story that the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates historical figures such as Qu Yuan and Wu Zixu. There is still debate in academic circles about whether there is a festival or a legend first, but most folklore experts believe that it is after the festival that the legend is attached to the festival and given other meanings, but these meanings are only part of the Dragon Boat Festival, which does not mean that the Dragon Boat Festival has become a festival of sacrifice.