Why is the Dragon Boat Festival the earliest sanitary defense festival in China?

The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the earliest festivals in China to be recognized as a heritage site, and is also known as the Duan Yang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, and so on. It is called one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival is said to honor Qu Yuan of the state of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period. During his reign, he advocated the promotion of virtue and ability, the enrichment of the army and the strengthening of the country, and later, because he advocated the alliance of Qi against the Qin Dynasty, he touched the sons of the aristocracy? Cheese? , was driven out of the capital city and exiled to the Ruan and Xiang valleys. In the process of exile, he was worried about the people and the country, and wrote famous poems such as "Li Sao", "Heavenly Question" and "Nine Songs". After witnessing the destruction of his country and the displacement of the people, he was so heartbroken that he could not bear to abandon his motherland, so on May 5, he wrote his last words "Huai Sha" and threw himself into the Miluo River. The local people heard about the incident, but they were never able to salvage Qu Yuan's body. In order to send their condolences, they swing boat on the river, so there is after the dragon boat race, the people are afraid of the river fish eat his body, they have taken out their own family collection of river rice balls, thrown in the river, in order to avoid fish and shrimp spoiled Qu Yuan's body, so there is after the custom of eating rice dumplings.

Chinese culture has a long history, profound, ancient festivals are an important carrier of traditional culture, which contains a deep and rich cultural connotation. And because the Dragon Boat Festival is the first five days of May in this day at noon, it is exactly three noon meet, as auspicious Yang, very most able to ward off evil spirits, herbs in the year is also the strongest medicinal day, but also because the summer is a plague, snakes, insects, rodents and ants season, so people believe that the day to pick the herbs can be able to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. As a result, there is a Dragon Boat Festival hanging wormwood, hands wrapped in five-color silk thread and wash herbal water and other customs.

The Dragon Boat Festival is the beginning of the month of May, when snakes and insects multiply, and the five poisons? The five poisons? It is regarded as an evil month. The month of May is considered to be a bad month. Five poisons? All of the bibs, ears smeared with xionghuang, hands wearing colorful rope, hanging on the door of the wormwood, these are in order to get rid of disease and epidemic prevention, therefore, it can be said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also the earliest of China's health and epidemic prevention festival, and therefore the people in the Dragon Boat Festival on this day will not say the Dragon Boat Festival happy, but to say that the Dragon Boat Festival well-being.