One of the Traditional Chinese Festivals:Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional Chinese festivals, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Festival, Double Five festival, day in the fifth day of the annual lunar calendar, is a collection of worship, pray for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and food as one of the folk festival.
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One of the widespread legends of the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is that Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet in the State of Chu during the Warring States period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month because he could not bear to see his country perish. People can not bear the fish and shrimp in the river to eat his body, put the rice ball and other food into the river to feed the fish and shrimp, later generations will also be the Dragon Boat Festival as a memorial to Qu Yuan festival.
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, in the inheritance and development of a variety of folk customs as a whole, different places because of regional culture and there are differences in the content or details of customs.
The main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are eating zongzi, rowing dragon boat races, shaving mugwort and calamus, putting paper kites, drinking realgar wine, washing herbal bath, tying five-color silk thread, wearing perfume bags and so on.
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The whole country has a three-day holiday(June 22 - June 24), and family members who go to work will return home for the reunion. During the Dragon Boat Festival, there will be a variety of folk activities and performances, which can not only enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.
No matter who you are, no matter where you are, I wish you a healthy Dragon Boat Festival.
Post time: Jun-21-2023
