What is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the earliest origin?
On the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year is the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Dragon Festival, the Zhengyang Festival, and the Tianzhong Festival.They worship the dragon totem and worship the celestial phenomena, so they have the custom of racing dragon boats and eating zongzi.
Dragon Boat Festival is one of the traditional festivals in my country, and it is also one of the most grand traditional festivals so far.When the Dragon Boat Festival is coming, we not only have to rest on statutory holidays, but also hold various celebrations.For example, eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, hanging wormwood, offering sacrifices to ghosts and gods, etc.This is because in ancient times the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival was the sacrifice of dragons and the worship of celestial phenomena.
What are the nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival originated in ancient times, and has gone through thousands of years until today, so it has many different folk nicknames, such as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc.But no matter how you call it, the Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, and the folks want to celebrate it, such as eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, winding colorful threads, washing herbal water, playing water at noon, flying kites, wearing damselfly, casting Yang Sui, drinking realgar wine, hiding the Dragon Boat Festival, avoiding the five poisons, collecting herbs, etc.
A brief introduction to the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival originated from people"s reverence for dragon totem and worship of celestial phenomena in ancient times.It has a history of thousands of years.So whenever the fifth day of the fifth lunar month comes, people will make sacrifices to the dragon and heaven and earth.Today, although we don"t have to worship the dragon god, there are still relics of the folk customs of the ancient Dragon Boat Festival, such as dragon boat racing, dragon boat water washing and other folk activities that are common today.
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