The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Five Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., is a folk festival that integrates worship of gods and ancestors, praying for good luck and warding off evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating。The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural sky and evolved from the worship of dragons in ancient times。Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven nights flying south of the central, in the year's most“中正As in the fifth line of the Book of Changes · Qiangua:The dragon is in the sky”。Dragon Boat Festival is the auspicious day of "flying dragon in the sky", the dragon and dragon boat culture has always been throughout the history of the Dragon Boat Festival。The Dragon Boat Festival is popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese charactersTraditional cultural festivals, the legend of Chu poet Qu Yuan in the Warring States period in the fifth day of the fifth jumping Miluo River suicide, descendants will also be the Dragon Boat Festival as a memorial to Qu Yuan festival;There are also statements in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui。The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects of content, contains profound and rich cultural connotation, in the inheritance and development of a variety of folk customs as a whole, due to different regional cultures and there are differences in the content or details of customs。
The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional Chinese festivals, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival。Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival。In May 2006, The State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list;Since 2008, it has been listed as a national holiday。In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first Chinese festival to be included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage。
On October 25, 2021, the Notice of The General Office of the State Council on the arrangement of some holidays in 2022 was released, and the Dragon Boat Festival in 2022 will be closed from June 3 to 5, a total of 3 days。
Two iconic customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are dragon boat racing and zongzi eating。Mr. Wen Yiduo believed that the Dragon Boat Festival was a festival for the ancient Baiyue people to hold dragon totem worship activities. He demonstrated his views in detail in two papers, "Dragon Boat Festival Examination" and "The Historical Education of the Dragon Boat Festival" (see "Wen Yiduo's Complete Works")。 At that time, dragon was already the totem of Wuyue nationality, and later evolved into the totem worship of the whole nation.It is in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the dragon that the habit of rowing dragon boats gradually emerged。The ancient people of Wu Yue"Dragon" for the totem, and every year in the Dragon Boat Festival day, held a grandTotemic festival;One of the activities is to draw a Jacky dragon-shaped canoe in the sound of drums, to compete on the water to worship the dragon God, but also to play games for fun, this is the origin of the custom of dragon boat racing。The legend of the dragon, in the book路史There are relevant records in "and other works:"The Emperor's head and body"。Yi Wei Tong Gua Verification Supplement:"The Mikado ClanFirst, with dry virtue。"The Emperor's ancestors and the sun, the moon, the five stars (七曜Hede, that is, his status is extremely noble。《全球十大外围足球平台排行》："The five dragons see religion, and the emperor is discovered。Yung notes:"五龙In the five realms, they are the five realms of God。"Spring and Autumn Life Calendar" : "(Five Dragons) father and son divide the five sides"。The ancient Wuyue ancestors to "dragon" as the totem, in the totem period, the four dragons of the four tribes rule one side, and the one dragon of the Tuan tribe as the central common Lord, so there are five dragons to separate the five sides of the said (Wen Yiduo "Dragon Boat Examination")。The historical legends of these dragons are actually derived from the worship and belief of the ancient Wuyue ancestors。A large number of modern unearthed cultural relics and archaeological studies have confirmed that there was a kind of cultural remains characterized by geometric pattern pottery in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Neolithic age。The remains of the family, according to experts inferred is a dragon worship totem tribe, known as Baiyue nationality。The patterns on the unearthed pottery and historical legends show that they have the custom of breaking hair tattoos, living in the water town, compared themselves to the descendants of the dragon, and the Dragon Boat Festival is the festival they created for ancestor worship。In the course of thousands of years of historical development, most of the Baiyue people have evolved into the Han nationality, and the rest have evolved into many ethnic minorities in the south, so the Dragon Boat Festival has become a festival of the whole Chinese nation。
Praise poetry:
Dragon Boat Festival day to give clothes [Tang] Du Fu
Palace clothes are also famous, Dragon Boat Festival by grace。The wind is soft, and the snow is light。
Since the day is wet, when the summer comes to clear。Within the length of the meaning, a lifetime of sacred love。
May 5 [Song] Mei Yaochen
Qu Shi has sunk dead, Chu people are sorry。It is not slander, but desire。
He never lost his hatred, but he never left behind。Yuan Xiang Bi Tan water, should be self-illuminated thousands of peaks。
Race to the Ferry 唐 Liu Yuxi
The Huanjiang River May flat dike flow, the city people will be floating color boat。Lingjun what year song has already done, sad ballad vibration from now on。Let's let it break, let's let it go。The horse's mane, 䗖蝀 drink the river form shadow association。The emperor Qian Wei Wei in the stream, to divide the male and female。First singing more than brave encouragement, not to mature color Ju。
