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Introducing the traditional Dragon Boat Festival

Introduces the traditional festival of Dragon Boat Festival as follows:

Duanwu Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., originated from the worship of natural phenomena of the sky, evolved from the ancient times of the sacrifice of the dragon. Dragon Boat Festival, originally created by the ancient ancestors used to worship the dragon ancestor, pray for blessings to ward off evil festivals. Because of the legend of the Warring States period of the Chu poet Qu Yuan jumped Miluo River on the fifth of May to kill himself, and later people will also be the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; also commemorates Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zi Tui and other sayings.

Overall, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the ancient ancestors to choose "flying dragon in the sky" auspicious day to worship the dragon ancestor, pray for blessings to ward off evil spirits, injected into the summer seasonal "disease prevention and prevention of epidemics," the fashion; the Dragon Boat Festival as a "bad month and bad day" in the northern Central Plains, attached to the commemoration of Qu Yuan. Northern China, attached to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures to commemorate the content.

The Han Dynasty was the first period of development after the unification of China, the economic and cultural exchanges between the north and the south of the customs and habits are also integrated with each other. Ancient chronology, chronology of the month, the day, the time universal trunk and earth's branches, the day of the month of noon, "in the right" also. Han Dynasty, the unification of the north and south, the calendar changes, the court in order to facilitate the festival, the annual Dragon Boat Festival was changed to the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. As far as the existing literature, some northern places in the two Han period of the Dragon Boat Festival customs are mainly to avoid evil.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a day when the Dragon Star is both "in the center" and "in the right place," which is a sign of great good fortune. Its origin covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects of the content, contains a profound and rich cultural connotation; in the development of the inheritance of a variety of folklore as a whole, the festival is rich in content. Dragon boat and rice dumplings are the two major rituals of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been handed down in China since ancient times and are still practiced today.

The Dragon Boat Festival was originally created by the ancestors to worship the dragon ancestor and pray for blessings to ward off evil spirits. Because of the legend that Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu during the Warring States period, jumped into the Miluo River on the 5th of May to kill himself, the Dragon Boat Festival was later regarded as a festival in honor of Qu Yuan; it also commemorates Wu Zixu, Cao'e, and Jie Zi Tui, and so on.