Among the four traditional festivals in China, is the Dragon Boat Festival the first in China?

Dragon Boat Festival is not the first one.

In chronological order, the first one should be the Spring Festival. The four traditional festivals in China are Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, so Dragon Boat Festival is not the first traditional festival. However, as a special festival, the Dragon Boat Festival is the first festival in China to be included in the world intangible cultural heritage, and its culture has a wide influence in the world.

Dragon Boat Festival content:

1, eat zongzi

Zongzi is also called "sweet potato" and "tubular Zongzi". According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, people would wrap millet into trumpet-shaped leaves, which were called "horn potatoes" and bake them in bamboo tubes, which were called "tube zongzi". In the Jin Dynasty, Zongzi was officially designated as a special food for the Dragon Boat Festival.

2. Dragon Boat Race

Dragon boat race is one of the main customs of Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that Chu people who originated in ancient times were reluctant to give up their saint Qu Yuan and threw themselves into the river. Many people rowed boats to catch up with the rescue, scrambling to catch up with each other, and disappeared in Dongting Lake. Since then, they have been rowing dragon boats on May 5th every year to commemorate it.