What is the Tianzhong Festival?

The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is a traditional Chinese folk festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, which is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. Duanwu is also known as Duanwu, Duanyang. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival has many aliases, such as: Wuzhi Festival, heavy five festival, May Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Daughter Festival, the day in the festival, the ground wax, Poet's Day, Dragon Day and so on. Although the name is different, but on the whole, people around the custom of the festival or more than different. Over the Dragon Boat Festival, is the Chinese people more than two thousand years of traditional habits, due to the vast area, many ethnic groups, coupled with many stories and legends, so not only produced a number of different names of the festival, but also has a different custom around.

The contents of the main are: the daughter back to her mother's home, hanging Zhongdao like, welcome ghost ship, avoiding the afternoon, the post of the afternoon leaf amulet, hanging calamus, wormwood, swim in a hundred diseases, Pei Xiangbao, ready to sweet, dragon boat racing, martial arts, batting, swinging the autumn dry, the children painted with xionghuang, drinking xionghuang wine, calamus wine, eat five poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fruits, etc., in addition to superstitious colors of the activities have disappeared, the rest of the so far passed down in China! and neighboring countries.

Some activities, such as dragon boat racing, has been a new development, breaking through the time, geographical boundaries, and has become an international sporting event. About the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, said a lot of things, such as: commemorate Qu Yuan said; commemorate Wu Zixu said; commemorate Cao E said; from the three generations of the summer solstice said; bad month and bad day to drive to avoid said, Wu Yue national totem sacrifices said and so on. Each of the above said, each of its origin. According to scholars Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival" and "Dragon Boat Festival of the history of education" listed more than a hundred ancient records and expert archaeological evidence, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, is the ancient Chinese southern Wu Yue national totem festival, earlier than Qu Yuan. However, over the centuries, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poems have been widely and y rooted in people's hearts, so people "cherish and mourn them, and the world discusses their words in order to pass them on to each other", therefore, commemorating Qu Yuan's words has the widest and deepest impact, and occupies a mainstream position. In the field of folk culture, the Chinese people to the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race and eat zongzi, etc., are associated with the commemoration of Qu Yuan. To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular and grand festival among the Chinese people.