What effect does the Dragon Boat Festival have on people?

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, it is midsummer when the sun is on the mountain and it is midsummer in May. Its first afternoon is a sunny day to climb mountains in the sun, so the fifth day of May is also called "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Bathing Orchid Festival". Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. Originally, it was a totem festival for the tribes who worshipped dragon totem in Baiyue area (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south area). Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Baiyue area, it was customary to hold totem festivals in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, because Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu (now Hubei) in the Warring States period, threw a huge stone into the Miluo River that day, the ruler took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan in order to establish the label of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E are also commemorated.

Influence: Whether it is mugwort, sachet or colored rope, it conveys people's yearning for health, beauty and life, and is also a traditional form of blessing of the Chinese nation. This sustenance has both the symbolic significance of the Dragon Boat Festival and the mutual transmission of traditional values. The important existence or continuation of traditional culture depends on the transmission between people, and this intergenerational transmission is the key to the long-term excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation.

The inheritance of traditional customs is also the strength to unite the nation. A few years ago, there was a heated debate that South Korea should apply for intangible cultural heritage as its national holiday. At that time, the whole country was in uproar. This is obviously a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan in ancient China. How can they be allowed to copy it? ! The cohesion of a nation depends to a great extent on these symbolic and intangible connections with historical significance. The establishment of the Dragon Boat Festival, the most primitive significance is the affirmation of Qu Yuan's loyalty to the country. Therefore, the value and significance of patriotism conveyed by this festival is also the value that our descendants will continue to follow this festival.

For modern people, festivals also provide a good opportunity for relatives and friends to get together. In fact, zongzi can be wrapped and cooked at any time, but on the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, friends and relatives get together, wrap zongzi and taste delicious food, and the meaning will become different. Free relatives and friends from their busy work on weekdays, and take the holiday as an opportunity to sit together, chat and taste the food on the tip of the tongue, such a harmonious picture.