Which countries celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

China, South Korea, Japan and other Southeast Asian countries celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. Even Germany, the United States and other European and American countries are celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival. South Korea's Dragon Boat Festival developed from the Mountain God Festival. Originally, it was a celebration to pray for a bumper harvest in Jiangling countryside in Silla era. This is not a national holiday. They don't row dragon boats or eat zongzi. The most important thing is to worship the mountain gods, make wheel cakes and wash your hair with calamus water.

Celebrate the national characteristics of the Dragon Boat Festival

The Japanese Dragon Boat Festival was introduced from China after heian period. The main activities of the Japanese Dragon Boat Festival are eating zongzi and cypress cakes and drinking calamus wine to ward off evil spirits. In Japanese, calamus is homophonic with martial arts, so Dragon Boat Festival has gradually become a festival for boys. In order to make boys grow up healthily, successful people will hang carp flags at home in the future.

Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Malaysia, Indonesia and other countries, especially the Chinese communities in these countries, have the custom of rowing dragon boats, eating zongzi and collecting herbs to drive away epidemics. There are also many people from these countries in China, and it is understandable that they like the Dragon Boat Festival custom in China after hearing about it.