The Dragon Boat Festival is a large folk festival that integrates worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The customs mainly include rowing dragon boats, sacrificing dragons, picking herbs, hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, washing herbs, worshiping gods and ancestors, dipping in dragon boat water, eating dragon boat rice, eating zongzi, releasing paper dragons, releasing paper kites, and tying five-color silk threads. , Pei sachet and so on. As one of the four major traditional festivals in China, it not only clearly records the rich and colorful social life and cultural content of the ancestors, but also accumulates extensive and profound historical and cultural connotations.

 

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in ancient times. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong Qisu flies to the center of Zhengnan, just like the ninth and fifth lines of "Book of Changes": "The flying dragon is in the sky". The ancients paid homage to the dragon ancestor on the auspicious day of "Flying Dragon in the Sky", and held some festive activities, especially the elements corresponding to the dragon, such as dragon boat races, or doing some activities to pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits on this auspicious day. The Dragon Boat Festival is the "Dragon Festival", and the culture of dragons and dragon boats runs through the historical heritage of the Dragon Boat Festival.

 

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are rich and colorful, and there are differences in the content or details of the customs due to different regional cultures across the country. These festivals and customs revolve around the forms of offering sacrifices to dragons, praying for blessings, and warding off disasters, etc., entrusting people's wishes to welcome good luck and happiness, and to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. Traditional festival ceremonies and related custom activities are important contents of festival elements. During the Dragon Boat Festival, through various traditional folk activities, it can not only enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, but also inherit and promote traditional culture.

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