Origin and Customs of Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of heavenly signs and evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in the ancient times, and the main customs include dragon boat races as well as eating rice dumplings.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duan Yang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chong Wu Festival, Dragon Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, and is a traditional festival of Chinese folklore. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanities and philosophy, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations; in the development of the inheritance of a variety of folklore as a whole, the festival is rich in customary content.

The prehistoric culture of Hemudu site and Tianluoshan site shows that as early as 5000 to 7000 years ago, there were canoes and wooden paddles; the initial prototype of the dragon boat is a single wooden boat carved in the shape of a dragon on the canoe, and later developed into a wooden board made of dragon-shaped boat. Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi which is the traditional custom of the Chinese people. Dumplings, also known as corn, ancient dumplings, tube dumplings. Its long history, a variety of patterns. According to records, as early as in the Spring and Autumn period, with Mushroom leaves wrapped in millet into a horn-shaped, called corn.

Duanwu Festival Cultural Values:

Duanwu is a festival that fully embodies the ethics of human feelings, as one of the three major folk festivals, it is an important node in the life of the civil society, and people will be the Dragon Boat Festival as an important time to harmonize the relationship between the family community. Families reunite and love each other with joy. As an intangible cultural heritage of mankind, the Dragon Boat Festival is also a future-oriented festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival conveys family warmth, defends individual lives, memorializes historical sages, and stimulates the national spirit, and is a remarkable cultural creation of our nation. As children of China, we should continue to inherit and develop the national festival culture, enhance national pride and cultural self-confidence, and dedicate our excellent festival cultural heritage to the world.