China’s traditional festivals, or from the original celebration activities, or from major historical events, or from serious natural disasters and plague, or from religion, or from the legend, are in a specific historical background. By celebrating festivals, people express their emotions or wishes, so festivals are endowed with specific connotations and form colorful national festival customs.
The Fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, commonly known as “May Festival”. There are many theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. In its traditional form, the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates qu Yuan, an ancient Chinese poet. Qu Yuan (c. 340-278 BC) was a man of Chu during the Warring States Period. He was exiled to south of the Yangtze River by King Huai of Chu because of slanders. Later generations to commemorate the great poet so this day as the Dragon Boat Festival. Every time this festival, folk are held to wear incense bags, eat zongzi, dragon boat racing and other activities. And there are mugwort inserted on the door, hanging colorful lines, such as the custom of fighting 100 grass.
There are a large number of traditional festivals in China, among which positive, positive and healthy contents have become the mainstream. The traditional Dragon Boat Festival is still full of vitality, strong vitality by people’s attention. This is because our traditional festivals reflect the gratitude and remembrance of all ethnic groups, and the common aspirations of good and evil, reflecting the traditional Chinese culture.
Now, our country will have the Spring Festival, the tomb-sweeping day, dragon-boat festival and the Mid-Autumn four national traditional festival as a statutory holiday, to do so is to inherit and carry forward the Chinese nation excellent traditional culture, embodied the theme of the festival and ethics can further carry forward in the modern social life, promote social harmony and progress.
Post time: May-25-2022