Extract 300 words from the origin of Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival, which originated in China, was originally a festival in which ancient ancestors offered sacrifices to their ancestors in the form of dragon boat races.

Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River during the Dragon Boat Festival, and later took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some places, there are sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui.

Generally speaking, Dragon Boat Festival originated from dragon totem sacrifice. It began on the "bad month and bad day" in the north, injected the seasonal fashion of "getting rid of diseases and preventing epidemic" in summer, and added commemorative contents to commemorate Qu Yuan's suicide by jumping into the river, which finally formed the cultural connotation of today's Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the seven nights in Black Dragon rise to the south of the sky, which is the day when the dragon ascends to heaven, that is, the "flying dragon is in the sky" in the book of changes. Long Xing at this time is both "right" and "right", which means good luck. The custom of the Dragon Boat Festival embodies the ancient people's view of nature of "harmony between man and nature" and reflects the profound cultural connotation of China with a long history. Dragon Boat Festival has a variety of folk customs in its inheritance and development. There are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the contents or details of the customs are different due to different regions. Although customs vary from place to place, eating zongzi and picking dragon boats are common customs.

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Dragon Boat Festival is popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. Together with Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, it is called the four traditional folk festivals in China. 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.

In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved the inclusion of Dragon Boat Festival in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, making it the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia: Dragon Boat Festival