What is the Dragon Boat Festival

Duanwu Festival is one of the four major traditional festivals in China, which is a folk festival that combines worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings to ward off evil spirits, celebrating and entertainment, and eating and drinking.

Duanwu Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival that is popular in China as well as the countries in the Chinese character culture circle.

Legend has it that Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu during the Warring States period, jumped into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to kill himself, and the Duanwu Festival is also regarded as a festival in honor of him, as well as in honor of Wu Zixu, Cao'e, and Jie Zitui, among others.

The Dragon Boat Festival is known as one of the four major traditional festivals in China, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The culture of the Dragon Boat Festival has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

In May 2006, the State Council included the Dragon Boat Festival in the list of the first national intangible cultural heritage, and since 2008, it has been listed as a national legal holiday.

In September 2009, UNESCO formally approved the inclusion of the Dragon Boat Festival in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, making the Dragon Boat Festival China's first festival selected as one of the world's intangible cultural heritages.

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Cultural Implications:

Duanwu Festival: The discussion of whether to say "Happy" or "Well-being" is in fact a search for the essence of the festival, the traditional face of the people. The first is to explore the cultural significance of the Dragon Boat Festival, and to restore the original flavor.

Patriotic feelings: People commemorate Qu Yuan not only because of his artistic attainments, but also because of his great soul and deep patriotic feelings.

Family sentiment: the Dragon Boat Festival in the family sentiment, the more necessary to vigorously promote. For many people, the Dragon Boat Festival is a small holiday, but for medical workers, community workers, passenger workers, sanitation workers and many other people fighting in the front line positions, is still "fighting" rhythm.

It is their silent perseverance and loaded forward, there is a "well-being" of the Dragon Boat Festival. Their behavior itself, is the interpretation of the national sentiment, but also worthy of the whole society to remember.

Ceremony: Every Dragon Boat Festival, all over the world will organize a variety of festive activities - reading "Li Sao", wrapping rice dumplings, making scented buns, rowing dragon boats and so on. Through these activities, a sense of ritual is constructed for the festival, and people gradually get closer to the tradition as they participate.

Abdolute love: This abject love for the motherland and the nation carried by the Dragon Boat Festival is enough to unite us with the majestic power of continuous striving and struggle.

Inheritance of responsibility: the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival is known as China's four major traditional festivals, the inheritance of the Dragon Boat Festival to carry forward the cultural connotation of the festival is the history of the responsibility entrusted to us.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Dragon Boat Festival