6.22 the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival, which originated in China, was originally a festival for ancestors to worship the dragon ancestors in the form of dragon boat races. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of the Chu State in the Warring States period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River with a stone in his arms during the Dragon Boat Festival. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; In some places, there are also some sayings commemorating Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zhitui. In general, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the dragon totem sacrifice of Wuyue tribes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, injected into the fashion of "disease prevention" in summer season, regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as a "bad moon and day". It originated in the north, attached with commemoration of Qu Yuan and other historical figures, and finally formed the cultural connotation of today's Dragon Boat Festival