Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival, Noon Festival and Summer Festival. It was originally a festival to drive away the plague in summer. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China. The essential activities on this day gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood, mugwort leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica and drinking realgar wine.
The custom of eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a great poet in China history. Because of this, after the founding of New China, the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day".
The origin of festivals
Qu Yuan is one of the greatest romantic poets in China, and also the earliest known famous poet and world cultural celebrity in China. He initiated the style of "Chu Ci" and the tradition of "vanilla beauty". His representative works include Li Sao and Nine Songs. In the history of our country, the saying that the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan has a history of 1500 years.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, in addition to zongzi, many friends will send messages to wish each other "Happy Dragon Boat Festival". After all, Dragon Boat Festival is a festival of sacrifice. On this day, Wu Zixu voted for Qiantang River, Cao E saved his father and voted for Cao E River, and the great writer Qu Yuan voted for Miluo River. The fifth day of May is a solemn and stirring day and a day of sacrifice, so it is best to avoid wishing each other happiness. If you like, you can use words like "good luck and well-being".