Contents of traditional culture of Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, is one of the four traditional festivals in China. It originated from the worship of the Dragon Boat Festival in ancient times, praying for evil spirits, commemorating Qu Yuan in the Warring States Period, racing dragon boats and taking jiaozi as a guest.

1. Dragon boat race is one of the important folk activities of China Dragon Boat Festival. There are many theories about the origin of dragon boat race, such as offering sacrifices to Cao E, Qu Yuan, water god or dragon god. Dragon Boat Race was approved by the State Council to be included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

2. jiaozi is also one of the traditional activities of Dragon Boat Festival. Jiaozi on the Dragon Boat Festival is made to commemorate Qu Yuan and drive away dragons.

(1) Today, Qu Yuan is commemorated. The most widely known significance of making zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. It is said that Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet, angrily threw himself into the river on May 5th in the face of the pain of national subjugation. In order to prevent fish and summer from harming his health, people put rice in bamboo tubes and then put it into the river, which is the predecessor of Zongzi.

(2) expelling the dragon During the Jianwu period, in a dream of Changsha people, a man named boss sacrificed what the dragon ate. They need to tie it with wormwood and colored thread, which are the two things that dragons are most afraid of, so that they can drive the dragon away, and the zongzi will gradually evolve into corn and, over time, into various zongzi.