Why does South Korea take the Dragon Boat Festival as its own? Hateful!

On closer analysis, it is not difficult to see that the reason why South Koreans are so entangled on these issues is mainly due to a cultural anxiety about independence. Because of the rapid development of the economy, the Korean people have a strong desire to further improve their national self-confidence and show the uniqueness of their own culture in the midst of economic globalization.

So, how do we deal with this? Is it angry and scolding, and hurriedly going to apply for the World Heritage as a way to defend his legacy? I thought it didn't have to be.

In fact, the reason why Koreans can't wait or even unscrupulously use such things as "Dragon Boat Festival", "Traditional Chinese Medicine", "Movable Type Printing" and even "Chinese Characters" as their "heritage" to apply for the United Nations World Heritage Site shows that they have a strong identification with our Chinese civilization -- in other words, they actually recognize the central mother status of our Chinese civilization in the whole of West Asia and even Asia. Therefore, what we should do now is how to better maintain Chinese characters, the main script of West Asia and even the whole of Asia, so that it can become the main language in Asia like English in the Western world, and lay a solid foundation for the integration of Asia.

The 5th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the traditional Chinese festival Dragon Boat Yuanzi Festival, which was originally a festival for the Chinese people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics, and later because the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became a traditional festival for the Chinese Han people to commemorate Qu Yuan, and every family will eat rice dumplings on this day. In South Korea, there is also a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Let's take a look at how South Korea celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival!

Koreans refer to the "Dragon Boat Festival" as "Sangri", which means the day of the gods. In the past, every Korean household would put on the white mugwort cake with the fragrance of wormwood and glutinous rice on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, wash their hair with calamus soup to seek good luck, and drink calamus water to ward off evil spirits. People also wear traditional costumes to participate in rituals, performances and sports meets, swings and wrestling matches.

However, with the development of society, the Dragon Boat Festival customs that were maintained in many parts of Korea in the past are now remembered and passed down by few people, especially in big cities like Seoul. Although some families will still retain the habit of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival, due to the restrictions of urban living conditions, there are no longer sports meetings and wrestling competitions, and people only symbolically put out food such as mugwort cake on the table to make a simple sacrificial table to celebrate.

The only thing that has preserved the Dragon Boat Festival custom in its entirety in Korea is Gangneung, which is located on the coast of the East China Sea. Designated as Korea's No. 13 Intangible Cultural Heritage (Intangible Cultural Heritage) in 1967, the Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most well-preserved traditional festivals in Korea, usually starting in early April of the lunar calendar and lasting for a month. In addition to the various ceremonies, there are many interesting activities such as masquerade, folk dances, and competitions such as wrestling, swinging, tug-of-war, and archery.

Every year, millions of tourists come to Gangneung from all over the world to participate in the "Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival" and experience the Dragon Boat Festival culture.

It is different from the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival

The Gangneung Dragon Boat Festival is indeed an interesting cultural phenomenon in East Asia's "Hail Fraud Chinese Character Cultural Circle". In terms of festival customs, although the Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, in the long-term circulation and international exchanges, it has been absorbed and accepted by the countries and nationalities around China, and placed in its own cultural soil, forming unique festival customs of various countries and nationalities.