How did the Dragon Boat Festival come about?

Dragon Boat Festival is a festival founded by the ancestors of Baiyue in ancient times to worship their ancestors. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5th. Later, people 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 tui.

Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the auspicious day when the ancestors of Baiyue in the south chose "Dragon Ascending to Heaven" to worship the dragon ancestors, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" in summer. Dragon Boat Festival is considered as an "evil moon day", which originated in the northern part of the Central Plains to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures. The formation of the Dragon Boat Festival custom can be said to be the product of the integration of North and South customs.

Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Yulan Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice.

the introduction of the Dragon Boat Festival

Introduction to Dragon Boat Festival 100 words

Dragon boat racing and eating zongzi are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, but do you know the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is one of the festivals in China, but why eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival? Because then let's start with a great man. There was a great man in Chu State, that is, a poet. She trusts others very much. Therefore, Chu became more and more involved. In order to protect their bodies from being eaten by monsters and shrimps in the river, they made zongzi out of glutinous rice and threw them into the river for those monsters and shrimps to eat. The custom of Dragon Boat Festival is to eat zongzi.

Brief introduction to the origin of Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as May 5th Festival, is one of the national legal holidays in China and has been listed in the world intangible cultural heritage list. The origin of this festival was handed down from the Warring States period.

Brief introduction to the origin of Dragon Boat Festival

The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, astronomical phenomena, calendars and other humanistic and natural cultural contents. According to the research results of modern anthropology and archaeology, the two most primitive beliefs of human beings are the belief in heaven and earth and the belief in ancestors. Most of the ancient festivals were formed in the activities that the ancients chose auspicious days to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and the ancestors for their kindness.

The early festival culture embodies the humanistic spirit of the ancients, such as advocating nature and seeking the source. A series of sacrificial activities contain profound cultural connotations, such as respecting morality, ritual and music civilization, etc. The origin and development of festivals is a process of gradual formation, subtle improvement and popularization.

The customs of ancient north and south are different, and the Dragon Boat Festival activities in the pre-Qin period are rarely recorded in the Central Plains literature, so it is impossible to directly verify the source of the existing literature. According to the written records about the Dragon Boat Festival, the word "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the local customs of the Jin Dynasty, but the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival have existed for a long time, such as dragon boat racing and sacrifice.

Extended data

According to the widely circulated viewpoint of "commemorating historical figures", according to Wu Jun's mythical novel "Continuation of the Harmony of Qi" and Zong Ao's "Time in Jingchu Times", it is believed that the Dragon Boat Festival originated in commemoration of Qu Yuan. Others think it is to commemorate Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push. In the historical development and evolution, most traditional festivals are regarded as "origins" by some legends attached to the meeting.

However, through practical investigation, these stories and legends were born much later than festivals and were constructed by later generations. Due to the lack of historical research before modern times, there are many far-fetched theories about the origin, and because some historical figures happen to be related to that day, the "memorial theory" came into being, among which Qu Yuan's memorial theory has the most extensive influence.

Modern historians keep pointing out the mistakes in commemorating Qu Yuan, because the Dragon Boat Festival existed long before Qu Yuan's time. Looking at the documents of Han and Wei Dynasties, we can find that the Han Dynasty experienced more than 400 years of history, full of romance and passion, and maintained the Chu culture in the hometown of Southern Chu. Qu Yuan, a well-known successor of Chu culture, did not leave a word during the Dragon Boat Festival in the pre-Han and Wei Dynasties, so many scholars think that the Dragon Boat Festival has nothing to do with Qu Yuan.

In folklore, apart from the saying that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from Qu Yuan, there are also sayings commemorating Wu Zixu, Cao E, Jiezitui, Chen Lin, an upright official, and Gou Jian, the King of Yue.