The Origin of Dragon Boat Festival in Memory of Qu Yuan —— A Brief Introduction to Dragon Boat Festival

1, Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. Legend has it that Qu Yuan jumped into the Miluo River near Changsha, Hunan Province with a big stone in his arms after attacking Ying City in Kyoto, Chu. After hearing the news, the local people poured rice balls, eggs and realgar wine wrapped in leaves into the river to prevent fish, insects, shrimps and crabs from biting Qu Yuan's body. Later, they had the custom of eating palm seed on the Dragon Boat Festival.

2. The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival, originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena in ancient times and evolved from Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the black dragon rises to the south of the sky for seven nights, which is an auspicious day for the dragon to fly. As the fifth poem in the Book of Changes says, "The dragon is in the sky". At noon, Long Xing is both a "win" and a "right" and a symbol of good luck. Its origin covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations; In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are integrated, and festival customs are rich in content. Picking dragon boats and eating zongzi are two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

Dragon Boat Festival, originally created by ancestors, is a festival to worship the ancestors of dragons and pray for evil spirits. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5th and committed suicide. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push. Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "flying dragons in the sky" to worship their ancestors on auspicious days, praying for good luck to ward off evil spirits and injecting seasonal epidemic prevention fashion into summer; The Dragon Boat Festival, regarded as "bad month and bad day", began in the northern part of the Central Plains and was attached to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures.

Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it. In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.