Dragon Boat Festival, commonly known as Dragon Boat Festival, means "beginning" and "beginning". The fifth day can be called Dragon Boat Festival. In the lunar calendar, the earthly branch marks the moon, the shade is built in the first month, February is the base, and May is noon in turn, so May is called noon month, and "five" is connected with "noon", and "five" is also the yang number, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival, Worship Wu, Duanyang, Noon, Worship Wu and Noon Day. In addition, it is also called May Festival, Ai Festival and summer in some places. According to historical records, the word "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the local custom of Jin people and Zhou Dynasty: "Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer, cooking millet." Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China. The necessary activities of this day gradually evolved into: eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus and mugwort leaves, smoking Atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica, and drinking realgar wine. It is said that eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is to commemorate Qu Yuan, so after liberation, the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day" to commemorate Qu Yuan. As for hanging calamus, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine is said to suppress evil spirits. According to folklore experts, the Dragon Boat Festival began in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China. Dragon Boat Festival is now a national legal holiday. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, this folk custom was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. 1. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival In fact, there have been different opinions about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. Some people think this is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet who voted for the Miluo River on the fifth day of May. Some people say that in ancient times, this festival was a day to disinfect and avoid epidemics. According to the records in the literature and many customs of Dragon Boat Festival passed down from generation to generation, May is regarded as "poisonous month" and "evil month", and the fifth day of May is the first of the nine poisons, so many special customs of exorcism, disinfection and epidemic prevention spread on this day, such as inserting Pu 'er wormwood leaves, drinking realgar wine and offering sacrifices to five plague messengers.
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