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1. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, and the festival customs of expelling poison and avoiding evil spirits derives a variety of folk activities such as sacrifices, amusements, and health care in various places, mainly including sacrificing Qu Yuan, commemorating Wu Zixu, inserting mugwort, hanging calamus, drinking realgar wine, eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, and removing five poisons.

In May, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists; In September 2009, UNESCO officially reviewed and approved the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival to be included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage, becoming the first festival in China to be included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage.

3. The Dragon Boat Festival literally also has names such as "Duanwu", "Chongwu", and "Chongwu". "Duan" in ancient Chinese has the meaning of beginning and beginning, and calling "Duanwu" is also called "Chuwu". "The Tale of the Terroir" says:

Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival. The end, the beginning. "There are three five days in a month, and the first five days are "end five".

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival. For more than 2,000 years, the Dragon Boat Festival has been a multi-ethnic folk festival of national fitness, epidemic prevention and disease repellent, plague avoidance and drug removal, and prayer for health.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival and the Chongwu Festival, is said to be the day when Qu Yuan, a great poet in ancient China and one of the world's four major cultural celebrities, was martyred in the Luojiang River. For more than 2,000 years, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month has become a traditional festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. According to historical records, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in BC, Qu Yuan, a doctor and patriotic poet of Chu, heard the news that the Qin army had broken through the capital of Chu, and his heart was like a knife.

The people along the river led boats to race to fish, summon spirits along the water, and threw zongzi into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from eating away at his body. This custom has been practiced for more than 2,000 years.

For thousands of years, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poetry have been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. People "regret and mourn, the world talks about it, and passes it on from one generation to another". In the field of folk culture, the Chinese people have since closely associated the dragon boat racing and eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival with the commemoration of Qu Yuan.

With the increasing influence of Qu Yuan, the Dragon Boat Festival, which began in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, has gradually spread and become a festival of the Chinese nation.

The Dragon Boat Festival in China is also known by many other names, such as: Midday Festival, May Festival, Yulan Festival, Daughter's Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Day and so on. Although the names are different, the customs of people in different places are similar.

The main contents are: the daughter returns to her parents' home, hangs the statue of the clock, hangs calamus, wormwood, wears a sachet, races dragon boats, competes, hits the ball, swings, paints realgar for children, drinks realgar wine, eats salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fresh fruits, etc., in addition to the superstitious activities gradually disappearing, the rest of the customs have spread throughout China and neighboring countries.

Qu Zi Temple Town, Miluo City, Yueyang City.

Zigui County is the birthplace of Qu Yuan and one of the places with the deepest Dragon Boat Festival culture in China. In many places in China, there is only one Dragon Boat Festival, but Zigui has three Dragon Boat Festivals, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the first Dragon Boat Festival, the fifteenth day of May is the big Dragon Boat Festival, and the twenty-fifth day of May is the end of the Dragon Boat Festival. Every Dragon Boat Festival, Zigui people have to commemorate Qu Yuan in their own unique way, the Dragon Boat Festival poetry will chant Qu Yuan, race dragon boats to commemorate Qu Yuan, hold ceremonies to sacrifice Qu Yuan, in addition to hanging mugwort, inserting calamus, eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine, etc.

Girl picking out Dragon Boat Festival ornaments.

Every Dragon Boat Festival, in the area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang in East China, the common people like to row dragon boats at night, the lanterns are colorful, shuttle back and forth, the scene is moving, and it is interesting; The Miao people in Guizhou hold the "Dragon Boat Festival" from 25 to 28 of the fifth lunar month to celebrate the victory of rice planting and wish a bumper harvest. The Dai people in Yunnan race dragon boats in the "Songkran Festival" to commemorate the ancient heroes.

In addition to the custom of dragon boat racing in the Dragon Boat Festival in the mainland of the motherland, during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Taiwan also began to hold dragon boat races. At that time, Jiang Yuanjun, the governor of Taiwan, hosted a friendly match in the Half Moon Pool of Fahua Temple in Tainan City. Now every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in Taiwan, dragon boat races are held.

In Hong Kong, Macao and other places, the custom of dragon boat racing during the Dragon Boat Festival is also very popular.