The Dragon Boat Festival

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Dragon Boat Festival

Applicant: Ministry of culture

Project No.: 451

Project No.: Ⅹ - 3

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Zhongzhi unit

Type: new item

Applicant: Ministry of culture

Protection unit: Ministry of culture and Tourism

Introduction to Dragon Boat Festival:

Applicant: Ministry of culture

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, also known as Chongwu, Duanwu and PuJie, which is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Duan has the meaning of "Chu", so it is called Duanwu. Jianyin in the first month of the summer (lunar) calendar, according to the order of dizhi, may happens to be the noon moon. In addition, the ancients often called the fifth day the noon day, so Duanwu is also called Chongwu. The Dragon Boat Festival is spread all over the country, mainly distributed in the vast Han areas, and also celebrated by Zhuang, Buyi, Dong, Tujia, Gelao and other ethnic minorities.

There are many legends about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as commemorating Qu Yuan's throwing into the river, the taboo that began on May 5, Goujian, king of Yue, training the Navy, commemorating Wu Zixu's throwing into the Qiantang River and Cao E's saving his father, etc.

The main activities of the Dragon Boat Festival include: 1. Commemorating historical figures; 2. Rowing dragon boats; 3. Eating zongzi; 4. Various techniques for preventing five poisons (paper cutting by sticking Dragon Boat symbol, hanging wormwood and calamus, wearing sachets and other evil things, bathing in blue soup); 5. Playing games, such as fighting grass, hitting balls, shooting willows, etc. The main utensils and products related to the Dragon Boat Festival include dragon boat, zongzi, Wudu, Acorus calamus, Zhong Kui, Zhang Tianshi and Qu Yuan.

Dragon Boat Festival originated from folk customs, many of which are healthy and progressive. With the progress of society, the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually developed into a traditional festival with rich content and strong vitality. The Dragon Boat Festival is of great value to the study of the development of folk customs. Because it is a multi-ethnic Festival and contains transnational customs, it is of great value to the study of national cultural exchanges, international cultural exchanges, traditional sports competition, food culture and so on.

Dragon Boat Festival in the dragon boat, eat dumplings well preserved, and get healthy development. In view of this, other forms of cultural expression of the Dragon Boat Festival should be scientifically guided to enrich people's Festival cultural activities.