Dragon Boat Festival in China and Korea

South Korea's Dragon Boat Festival comes from China, so there is a "Dragon Boat Festival dispute between China and South Korea".

Gangneung danoje festival in Korea was designated as the intangible cultural property of KoreaNo. 13 in 1967. Gangneung danoje festival's sacrificial ceremony mainly comes from myths and legends. The gods they sacrificed were "Daguanling Mountain God" and Cave (Village) Town God, which were quite different from the contents of China Dragon Boat Festival.

It is worth mentioning that in the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival Museum, there is a collection cabinet, some of which are from China, such as the dragon boat woodcarving in Luodian and a dragon boat faucet, which are symbolic objects of the dragon boat race custom in China.

Luodian Dragon Boat started in Ming Dynasty and flourished in Qing Dynasty. It is a traditional folk activity of the Han nationality in Baoshan District, Shanghai, which is very distinctive in wuyue.

According to Korean historical records, in BC 108, that is, in the second year of Yuan Feng, Emperor of the Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty sent troops to Gangwon, now South Korea, which is the origin of Gangneung, South Korea. In other words, from then on, China people and Han culture began to take root in Jiangling, and the Dragon Boat Festival was probably a way for Han people to mourn their ancestors and miss their hometown.

No wonder the first sentence of South Korea's application for "Dragon Boat Festival" is: "Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival in China, which has been spread to South Korea for more than 1500 years". Needless to say, the "root" of gangneung danoje festival is the Dragon Boat Festival in China. Culture is a connector. China and South Korea had close contacts in ancient times, which doomed the integration and development of this culture, solved the original problems, and everything else was easy to understand.

The Dragon Boat Festival between China and South Korea can actually be "saved"

In fact, the innovative Dragon Boat Festival in Jiangling is very different from the traditional Dragon Boat Festival in China. Activities began with the brewing of divine wine, and folk activities included official and slave masquerade, agricultural music competition, Heshan folk songs, tug-of-war, wrestling, swinging, China poetry creation competition, archery, pot throwing and so on. , mainly for public entertainment.

The Dragon Boat Festival in China mainly commemorates the great poet Qu Yuan. Folk activities include eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, mugwort leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica and drinking realgar wine. In order to ward off evil spirits.

There are a set of folk activities in gangneung danoje festival, South Korea, which are both related and different from the Dragon Boat Festival in China. And "representative works of human oral heritage and intangible heritage" have "* * * enjoyment". For example, UNESCO successively approved Muqam in Iraq and Muqam in Azerbaijan as intangible cultural heritage, and Muqam in Xinjiang declared by China in 2007 was approved again.

In other words, the "Dragon Boat Festival dispute" between China and South Korea is only a dispute about not understanding the "international market", which objectively enhances the Korean people's understanding of their own traditions and promotes the internationalization of traditional culture.

The above contents refer to People's Daily Online-How can the Dragon Boat Festival be a "Korean specialty"?