According to legend, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan of Chu in the Spring and Autumn Period. During his stay in Korea, he advocated promoting talents and empowering people, making Qiang Bing a rich country. Later, he advocated the joint Qin dynasty, which touched the aristocratic children. Cheese? , was driven out of the capital, exiled to Ruan, Hunan basin. During his exile, he was concerned about his country and people, and wrote such famous poems as Li Sao, Tian Wen and Nine Songs. Because he witnessed the destruction of the country and the displacement of the people, he was heartbroken and he could not bear to give up his motherland. Therefore, on May 5th, he wrote his last poem "Huai Sha" and threw himself into the Miluo River. When the local people heard the news, they never found Qu Yuan's body. In order to mourn, they rowed on the river, so after the dragon boat race, people were afraid that the fish in the river would eat his body, so they took out their treasured Jiangmi dumplings and threw them into the river. In order to prevent fish and shrimp from ruining Qu Yuan's health, they have the custom of eating zongzi afterwards.
China culture has a long history and is profound. Ancient festivals are important carriers of traditional culture and contain profound and rich cultural connotations. Because the noon of the Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of May, and it happens to meet with three o'clock at noon, it is regarded as the ji yang that can ward off evil spirits, and the medicinal properties of herbs are also the strongest day of the year, and because summer is the season of frequent plagues, snakes, insects, rats and ants, people think that the herbs collected on this day can get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Therefore, during the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs such as hanging wormwood, wrapping colored silk thread with hands and washing herbal water.
The Dragon Boat Festival is in early May. Snakes and insects breed. Five poisons? Do your best and be respected? Bad month? , so children wear it? Five poisons? All kinds of Chinese-style corsets, with realgar on their ears, colorful ropes on their hands and wormwood hanging on their doors, are all aimed at getting rid of diseases and epidemic prevention. Therefore, it can be said that the Dragon Boat Festival is also the earliest health and epidemic prevention festival in China, so people will not say "Happy Dragon Boat Festival" on this day, but "Dragon Boat Festival Health".