The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional festivals in China, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, etc. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the major folk festivals to worship gods and ancestors, pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits. Every day comes, every household will be busy, wrapping zongzi, inserting calamus, hanging wormwood, and even eating salted duck eggs in some places Xi custom.
Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival is for the patriotic poet Qu Yuan of the Chu State, who committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, in order to prevent the fish and shrimp from hurting Qu Yuan's body, people chose to wrap rice balls in dumpling leaves and put them in the river to feed the fish and shrimp. In addition to eating zongzi, people also race dragon boats and hold various entertainment activities.
Two of the most important Xi customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are essential, one is to eat rice dumplings and the other is dragon boat racing. Every Dragon Boat Festival, the aroma of zongzi is always fragrant, because the food Xi habits are different in various places, and there are also salty zongzi and sweet zongzi.
Dragon boat racing is also one of the important Xi customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is a Xi custom handed down by ancient ancestors in order to sacrifice dragons. In the ancient Baiyue region, the tribes with the dragon as their totem would use dragon boat racing to carry out sacrificial activities.
The Dragon Boat Festival is also one of the essential Xi customs, people will hang wormwood and insert calamus on this day. These two grasses can be used to repel evil spirits and mosquitoes. The unique special fragrance of calamus can repel snakes, insects, rats and ants, so calamus has also become an important Xi of the Dragon Boat Festival.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China, and it is also a folk culture that has been handed down. The Dragon Boat Festival is not only popular in China, but also spread abroad, with far-reaching significance. In 2005, South Korea's "Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival" was successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, which also aroused our attention to traditional cultural festivals. We should attach importance to and protect traditional culture, and not allow the Xi that has been passed down for thousands of years to disappear.