What is the meaning of hanging bottles on Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. According to the "Jing Chu chronicle" records, because of the mid-summer, Shunyang on the May is the mid-summer, it is the first noon of the day is the first day of Shunyang good weather, so the fifth of May is also known as the "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival" and so on. [1] The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival that is popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character culture circle.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, initially as a festival of totem sacrifice for the dragon totem-worshipping tribes in the ancient Baiyue region (along the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and to the south of the Yangtze River), and it was customary to hold tribal totem sacrifices on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in the form of dragon boat races in the land of Baiyue before the Spring and Autumn Period. Later, because of the Warring States period of Chu (now Hubei) poet Qu Yuan in the day to hold the stone jump Miluo River to kill themselves, the rulers in order to establish the loyalty of the ruler and patriotism label will be the Dragon Boat Festival as a memorial to Qu Yuan; part of the region also commemorates the Wu Zixu, Cao E and other sayings.

The Dragon Boat Festival, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four traditional festivals of Chinese folklore. [2] Since ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival has been characterized by festive activities such as dragon boat races and eating zongzi (rice dumplings). Since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national holiday, and in May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists; in September 2009, UNESCO formally considered and approved the inclusion of the Dragon Boat Festival in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage, making it the first Chinese festival to be included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage. /subview/2567/5060532.htm