Happy Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Dragon Festival, the Zhengyang Festival, and the Tianzhong Festival, falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

It was originally a festival founded by the ancestors of the south to worship the ancestors of the dragon; because it is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of the Chu State during the Warring States Period, jumped to the Miluo River on May 5 to commit suicide, and later people also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, the source of the Dragon Boat Festival. Since the worship of celestial phenomena, it evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in ancient times.

On the Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong Qisu flew to Zhongtian in the south, which is the day when Long Feitian was flying, that is, as the fifth line of "Book of Changes Qian Gua" said: "Flying dragon is in the sky".

What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival?

1. Eat dumplings. The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the poet Qu Yuan's habit of eating zongzi. Nowadays, there are many kinds of zongzi with different tastes, such as fresh meat zongzi, egg yolk zongzi, candied jujube zongzi, original flavor and so on. At this time, control the intake of zongzi according to the actual situation, and do not hurt the body because of greed for delicious food.

2. Eat eggs. Eggs must be boiled in the pot for cooking zongzi. It is said that eating boiled eggs in the zongzi pot during the Dragon Boat Festival will not cause sores in summer; if you put the boiled eggs in the zongzi pot in the sun for a while at noon, you will not eat them all summer. Headache.

3. Dragon boat racing: Dragon boat racing is an important event of the Dragon Boat Festival, and it was also raised to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

It can be seen that dragon boat racing is not only a sports and entertainment activity, but also reflects the spirit of patriotism and collectivism in people's hearts.