On the 18th of this month, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, we will celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, one of the four traditional festivals in China. It is well known that the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, a famous poet in the Warring States Period. But in some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E have been saying for several years.
According to legend, in 278 BC, Qu Yuan was exiled to Dongting Lake area, Qin generals Bai attack the capital city of Chu Ying, Chu Xiangwang fled to Chen, Qu Yuan knew that he felt hopeless to save the country, after Miluo wrote the final chapter of Lisao, he threw himself into the river. Miluo people could not bear the patriotic poet's death, rowing rescue, but also worried about the river fish and shrimp eating Qu Yuan's body, so the boat dumplings into the river to feed, but it was too late, a few days later Qu Yuan's body was salvaged ashore. Thousands of years later today, dragon boat racing and rice dumplings have been passed down, and the Dragon Boat Festival has become the Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, Qingming and China's four traditional festivals.
The Dragon Boat Festival is popular not only in China, but also in Japan, Korean Peninsula, Vietnam and other countries have had the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival in Japan has become one of the five major festivals in Japan. Dragon Boat Festival is a very grand festival for the Chinese people. It is a traditional custom that has been passed down for more than 2000 years. The Dragon Boat Festival in 2009 is also listed in the world intangible cultural heritage list. Therefore, as Chinese, we should keep the cultural heritage left by our ancestors and continue to inherit it.
The Dragon Boat Festival is approaching.