Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to commemorate the great poet Qu Yuan, to prevent diseases, ward off evil spirits and drive away drugs, and to pray for health and longevity. In the past, there were many traditional celebrations during the Dragon Boat Festival, such as washing blue soup, tying mugwort and calamus, throwing disasters, drinking medicinal liquor, eating zongzi and racing dragon boats. It contains a lot of cultural and spiritual contents.
But today, people can only think of eating zongzi and dragon boat racing, while city people only eat zongzi. Many traditional customs and activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are gradually being forgotten, and some seem to have disappeared, resulting in the Dragon Boat Festival gradually losing the charm of traditional culture.
Dragon boat festival in ancient poetry: eating zongzi in dragon boat races has long been recorded.
Dragon Boat Festival is an important traditional festival in China. There are three five days in a month: May15th and 25th, which means the beginning. The fifth day of each month can be called Dragon Boat Festival, and the fifth day of the lunar calendar is also called "noon month", so it is also called "Dragon Boat Festival". It is generally believed that this is the origin of the name "Dragon Boat Festival". The customs of different places and generations are different, which leads to many different names of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as Duanyang, Chongwu and Chongwu.
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is already midsummer. As early as ancient times, ancestors began to realize the importance of this period to the quality of life, and began to consciously take various measures and hold various activities to pray for health and harvest. Around the Han and Jin Dynasties, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a common custom. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, the contents and ceremonies of various activities were completely finalized, and the Dragon Boat Festival became a national festival shared by the government and the public.