Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China, which has existed since ancient times. On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people will happily celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. Different places have different ways to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. Similarly, people everywhere attach great importance to this festival. When it comes to the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, many people will think of Qu Yuan, a very great poet and minister of Chu State during the Warring States Period. Later, he was framed and exiled by a traitor. After the demise of Chu, Qu Yuan wrote a poem "Huai Sha". On May 5th, he jumped into the Miluo River with a stone in his arms. Later, in order to commemorate him, people turned this day into the Dragon Boat Festival.
But in fact, the Dragon Boat Festival existed before Quyuan threw himself into the river. Dragon Boat Festival is not only related to Qu Yuan, but also related to historical figures such as Gou Jian, Wu Zixu and Yue Wang, which have existed since ancient times. At that time, May was also called noon, so May 5th was also called noon. On this day, people store orchids and bathe to get rid of diseases and disasters. This is the prototype of the Dragon Boat Festival. Before the Han Dynasty, many customs were held in May, but it was not just May 5th. The Dragon Boat Festival was actually held on May 5 in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was also from this time that the saying of colored silk came into being.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there were great social changes, such as population migration, which led to the interweaving of different cultures and the integration of different customs, such as the concepts and customs of the North and the South, the Dragon Boat Festival and the summer solstice. Later, the interpretation of these customs appeared in literary works, which was linked with Qu Yuan and endowed with more cultural significance.