Dragon Boat Festival Introduction

Introduction to Dragon Boat Festival: Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in my country. On this day, people eat rice dumplings, race dragon boats, hang calamus, drink realgar wine and so on. The Dragon Boat Festival is the first festival in China to be selected as an intangible cultural heritage in the world.

There are many legends about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, but in the long selection and elimination, the legend in memory of Qu Yuan is the most widespread and popular. "His ambition is clean and his conduct is honest", starting from Sima Qian's affectionate narration of Qu Yuan, Qu Yuan's image of loyalty and patriotism has become more and more tall in the narration of literati of all dynasties. Since the Han Dynasty, people believed that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from Qu Yuan.

During the stalemate of the Anti-Japanese War in 1942, Guo Moruo's historical drama "Qu Yuan" used the past to describe the present, aroused the patriotic enthusiasm of the general public, and made Qu Yuan's patriotic image deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In 1954, Qu Yuan was included in the World Cultural Who's Who.

Song Ying believes that the Dragon Boat Festival was not originally to commemorate Qu Yuan, but in the process of development, the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually been closely linked with Qu Yuan and patriotism, and has become an intangible cultural heritage of mankind.