Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duan Yang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, etc., is a collection of worship to the gods and ancestors, pray for blessings to ward off evil spirits, celebration and entertainment and food as one of the big folk festival, is one of the four traditional Chinese festivals.
The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural celestial phenomena, evolved from the ancient era of dragon sacrifice. Dragon Boat is "flying dragon in the sky" auspicious day, dragon and dragon boat culture has always been in the history of the Dragon Boat Festival heritage.
The origin of ancient traditional festivals is related to ancient primitive beliefs, ritual culture and human and natural cultural contents such as celestial signs and calendars. Most of the ancient festivals were formed when the ancient people chose auspicious days to offer sacrifices to thank the gods of heaven and earth and the ancestors for their kindness. The early festival culture reflects the humanistic spirit of the ancients, such as nature worship and thinking of the origin; a series of ritual activities, which contains a deep cultural connotation of respect and sense of virtue, ritual and music civilization. Dragon and dragon boat culture has always been throughout the history of the Dragon Boat Festival heritage.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese cultural circle. According to the legend, the poet Qu Yuan of the State of Chu during the Warring States period jumped into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month, and later people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.
Various traditional folklore activities:
Dragon Boat Race
Dragon boat raking has a long history and is a multi-person collective paddling competition. The dragon boat race is divided into several sections such as inviting the dragon, offering the dragon god, swimming the dragon. Before the dragon boat race is generally held a grand ritual, first to invite the dragon, sacrifice to the gods. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, we should choose an auspicious day to rise from underwater, after sacrificing to the gods, put on the dragon's head and tail, and then prepare for the race.
Hanging Artemisia argyi and calamus
In the Dragon Boat Festival arrangement of all kinds of flowers and plants can drive away evil spirits and diseases, the source also long. People insert Artemisia argyi and calamus as one of the important content of the Dragon Boat Festival.
Rice dumpling for the Dragon Boat Festival
Rice dumplings, the main material is glutinous rice, filling, wrapped with Ruo leaves (or Shuusu leaves) and made in a variety of shapes, including sharp-angled, four-angled, etc.. Rice dumplings have a long history and were originally used to be a tribute to ancestral spirits. The custom of eating zong at the Dragon Boat Festival has been prevalent throughout China since ancient times, and has become one of the most influential and wide-ranging folk food customs of the Chinese nation.
In May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. Since 2008, it has been listed as a national holiday. In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first Chinese festival to be selected as a World Heritage Site.
ADAYO lighting gave every employee a Dragon Boat Festival gift and wished everyone a happy Dragon Boat Festival.
