What is the Dragon Boat Festival?

Duanwu Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Day Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival. The Dragon Boat Festival originates from the worship of heavenly signs and evolved from the dragon totem sacrifice in the ancient times. Mid-summer Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon seven lodges soared to the south in the sky, is the day of the Dragon flying, that is, as the "I Ching - Qian Gua" lines of the fifth line of the lines said: "Flying Dragon in the sky"; at this time, the Dragon Star both "to get the" and "to get the positive ", in a position of great good fortune, Enshi Pu also, the Dragon Virtue. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, containing a profound and rich cultural connotation. The Dragon Boat Festival in the development of inheritance mixed with a variety of folklore as a whole, the festival is rich in customs, picking the dragon boat and eating rice dumplings is the Dragon Boat Festival of the two major rituals, these two traditional rituals in China since ancient times, and still not stop.

The Dragon Boat Festival, which originated in China, was originally a festival in which the ancient ancestors chose the auspicious day of the Dragon's Ascension to worship the Dragon's ancestor. Because of the legend of the Warring States period of the Chu poet Qu Yuan in the Dragon Boat Festival jumped Miluo River 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. In general, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the South Wu Yue ancestors of the dragon totem sacrifice, injected into the summer seasonal "disease prevention" fashion, the Dragon Boat Festival as a "bad month, bad day" in the North, attached to commemorate the commemoration of Qu Yuan and other historical figures to commemorate the content of the Dragon Boat Festival cultural connotation of the final formation of the present day.

The Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and known as China's four traditional folk festivals. Duanwu culture has a wide influence in the world, some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. 2006 May, the State Council will be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; since 2008, it has been listed as a national legal holiday. 2009 September, UNESCO formally approved its inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, Duanwu Festival has become China's first intangible cultural heritage on the World Heritage List. The Dragon Boat Festival has become the first festival in China to be selected as one of the world's intangible cultural heritages.