What does the Dragon Boat Festival symbolize?

Significance: The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to worship ancestors, and the Dragon Boat Festival culture fully embodies the Chinese ancestors' view of nature 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.

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. 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.

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External influence of Dragon Boat Festival

1, the Japanese have had the tradition of China Festival since ancient times. The Dragon Boat Festival in Japan is on May 5th in the solar calendar. After the custom of Dragon Boat Festival spread to Japan, it was absorbed and transformed into traditional Japanese culture. Japanese people don't row dragon boats on this day, but they eat zongzi and hang calamus in front of the door like China people. 1948, the Dragon Boat Festival was officially designated as the legal children's day by the Japanese government and became one of the five major festivals in Japan.

2. Korean Peninsula

People on the Korean peninsula think that the Dragon Boat Festival is a celebration and a time to worship heaven. Koreans call the Dragon Boat Festival "going to Japan", which means the day of God. In the Korean peninsula during the agricultural society, people participated in traditional sacrificial activities and prayed for a bumper harvest. During the sacrificial ceremony, there will be masquerade, Korean wrestling, swinging, taekwondo competition and other activities with Korean local characteristics.

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