Which is not the source of the Dragon Boat Festival?

What does not belong to the source of Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Chu Zhuangwang.

Introduction of Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Tianzhong Festival. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Black Dragon spent seven nights in Nanzhong, which is the most "positive" position in the whole year, just like the fifth poem in the Book of Changes: "The flying dragon is in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it. 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 its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.

Second, the origin of the 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. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, threw himself into the Miluo River during the Dragon Boat Festival. Later, people also 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, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the dragon totem sacrifice of wuyue tribes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" in summer. It began on the "bad month and bad day" in the north, accompanied by the commemoration of Qu Yuan and other historical figures, and finally formed the cultural connotation of today's Dragon Boat Festival.

Third, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China. It is usually held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (June of the Gregorian calendar). It was established in memory of Qu Yuan, an ancient poet in China. Dragon Boat Festival is rich in customs and traditional activities. One of the most famous customs is eating zongzi, which is a triangular zongzi wrapped with glutinous rice and various fillings, symbolizing exorcism and praying for peace and happiness.

In addition, people will also race dragon boats, and the contestants will sit on the long dragon boats and paddle to commemorate the legend that people rowed to save Qu Yuan. In addition, people will hang wormwood and calamus leaves, smoke them and decorate them to drive away evil spirits.

The Dragon Boat Festival is also a time for various folk arts and cultural activities, including lion and dragon dances, traditional dances and drum performances. In a word, Dragon Boat Festival is a festival full of glory and traditional culture. People celebrate this festival to express the meaning of praying for blessings, exorcising evil spirits and promoting traditional culture.