Chinese Festival Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China, the festival time is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, is a collection of worship to the gods and ancestors, pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits, celebration entertainment and food as one of the folk festivals. The Dragon Boat Festival has more than 20 aliases such as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., which is the traditional festival of Han, Shui, Naxi, Tibetan, Yi, Dai, Gelao, Pumi and other ethnic groups.

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival in the Central Plains. As a festival, the Dragon Boat Festival was formed in the Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty Yingshao's "Customs and Customs", there is a record of people avoiding ghosts of military service and preventing diseases and epidemics on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, from ancient times to the present is different, the main sayings are: commemoration of Qu Yuan said, Yingtao God said (Wu Zixu became the Tao God after his unjust death), evil day said, the dragon's festival said (that is, the sacrifice of the dragon totem said), the summer solstice said.