The significance of Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival was originally founded by ancient ancestors to worship the ancestors of dragons and pray for evil spirits. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5th and committed suicide. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, and there were also sayings to commemorate Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jiezitui. Dragon Boat Festival is an important part of our national culture, which can not only enrich the cultural life of the masses, but also inherit the traditional culture well.

Dragon Boat Festival is a festival for ancestor worship, and the Dragon Boat Festival culture fully embodies the Chinese ancestors' natural view of "harmony between man and nature". The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, clearly records the rich and colorful social life and cultural content of the ancestors of the Chinese nation, and accumulates profound historical and cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs have been integrated and intangible culture has been promoted.

In the history of the Chinese nation, Qu Yuan is the embodiment of patriotism that cares about the country and the people. His loyalty to the country and compassion for the people have long been accompanied by his poems and have become immortal in the long river of history. Although ordinary people may not understand Qu Yuan's famous Lisao, it does not affect everyone's understanding of his feelings about home and country, that is, "taking a long breath to hide tears and lamenting the hardships of people's lives".

Picking dragon boats and eating zongzi are two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.