"The Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, and it will get longer when it is sunny." The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional festival in China-Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, and it is also one of the oldest festivals in China. The Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Dragon Boat Festival", or "Duanyang", which means the beginning. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month can be called Dragon Boat Festival. In the lunar calendar, the earth supports the moon, the first month is cloudy, February is the base, and May is noon. So May is called noon, and May and noon are connected. Five is also a positive number, and the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Chongwu", "Duanyang" and "Zhongtian". According to historical records, the word "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the Local Records of the Jin Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty: "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, cooking millet". Besides, the Dragon Boat Festival has other names, such as "Noon Festival", "Chongwu Festival", "May Festival", "Bathing Orchid Festival", "Daughter's Day", "Noon Festival", "Wax Festival", "Poet's Day" and so on. Although these names are different, on the whole, people's festivals in different places are more similar than different.
On this day, people have the custom of eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging sachets and drinking realgar wine. After hundreds of years of circulation, it has become a beautiful landscape of the Chinese nation. No matter what generation you are, no matter where you are in the world, all China people will definitely think of Duanyang, eating zongzi and dragon boat racing on this day, and think of the couplets left by poets and politicians for thousands of years. When it comes to Duanyang Festival, we have to talk about Zongzi and Qu Yuan. According to the historian Biography of Qu Yuan and Jia Sheng, Qu Yuan was a minister of Chu Huaiwang in the Spring and Autumn Period. He advocated the use of talents, empowerment, and prosperity, and advocated joint resistance to Qin, which was strongly opposed by others. Qu Yuan was forced to leave his post, was driven out of the capital and exiled to the Yuan and Xiang river basins. During his exile, he wrote immortal poems such as Li Sao, Tian Wen and Tian Wen, which have a unique style and far-reaching influence (therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Poet's Day). In 278 BC, Qin Jun conquered Kyoto of Chu. Seeing that his motherland was invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken, but he was always reluctant to give up his motherland. On May 5th, after writing his masterpiece Huai Sha, he died in Miluo River and wrote a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.
Seeking good luck, peace and exorcism can be said to be the basic themes of our traditional festivals of the Han nationality. Among all these festivals, only the Dragon Boat Festival injects patriotism, which embodies the people's national consciousness and national consciousness since ancient times. This is the uniqueness of the ideological connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival.
At first, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from people's primitive worship and belief. According to Wen Yiduo's Dragon Boat Festival Examination and Dragon Boat Festival History Education, the origin of Dragon Boat Festival is a totem festival held by Wuyue people in ancient southern China. However, in the late Han Dynasty and Wei and Jin Dynasties, it was given the content of commemorating historical figures. There are different opinions about which historical figure to commemorate at first, in order to commemorate Qu Yuan, the great poet of the Warring States Period, who had the greatest and most far-reaching influence. In Tang Dynasty, Qu Yuan was mentioned in Chu Guangxi's Guan, Bai Juyi's Guan, Liu Yuxi's Qu and Zack Zhang's Guan. Sima Qian said that he was "the sick king didn't listen, flattering and concealing the truth, and the evil song harmed the public, which Fang Zhengzhi could not tolerate." Therefore, when he wrote Li Sao, he was sad and thoughtful, praising Qu Yuan for "pushing this ambition, although winning glory with the sun and the moon." Qu Yuan's suicide is by no means his personal injustice and anger, but the tragedy of Chu and the tragedy of political corruption in later generations. Qu Yuan used his suicide to protest against the political corruption of turning black and white. It is this person who "wins glory with the sun and the moon" that makes people miss and mourn. Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival every year is a good wish for people to look forward to politics, people's prosperity and people's safety every year.
The Chronicle of Jingchu also records that Qu Yuan committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, because he was very sad about Qu Yuan's death. After Qu Yuan's martyrdom, the people of Chu were extremely sad. The locals were afraid that fish and shrimp would hurt Qu Yuan, so they rowed from all directions and threw rice dumplings wrapped in glutinous rice into the water. Later, people had the custom of eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate the patriot Qu Yuan. In the Tang Dynasty, Wen Xiu had a poem "Dragon Boat Festival", which was widely known as Qu Yuan. I can laugh at the emptiness of the Chu River, but I can't wash it straight. "Expressed the author's sympathy and love for Qu Yuan and his feelings of flogging treacherous court officials.
The origin of the custom of Dragon Boat Festival not only reflects the reverence of China people for patriots, but also permeates the long-standing patriotic feelings of the Chinese nation. At present, we advocate the socialist concept of honor and disgrace with the content of "eight honors and eight disgraces", the first of which is to be proud of loving the motherland and ashamed of endangering the motherland. Imagine if there were gods in heaven, Qu Yuan would smile in the grave. Today, two thousand years later, what do we advocate when we talk about Qu Yuan's patriotism? What we advocate is Qu Yuan's spirit of loving freedom and peace, his high sense of responsibility of taking the world as his own responsibility in the face of crisis, and his unyielding spirit in the face of power. We should appreciate Qu Yuan's deep feelings for the people of the whole country and the vast land under our feet. Unlike Qu Yuan, we live in a prosperous China. The country is prosperous and the people are harmonious. In this new era of abundance and confidence, we should learn to be patriotic. Of course, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a "hot" festival in recent years, and it is also inseparable from the "Sino-Korean Cultural War" that took place in 2004. The cause of the incident was that the Gangneung Ono Festival declared by South Korea was officially recognized by UNESCO as a "human legend and intangible heritage work", and it also became the starting point for our government and citizens to have a broad sense of urgency to protect China's traditional culture.
General Secretary Hu Jintao pointed out in the report of the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China: "Carry forward Chinese culture and build a spiritual home shared by the Chinese nation." Spiritual home is a nation's cultural sustenance and destination, which reflects a nation's unique tradition, habits, spirit, psychology and emotion. Traditional festivals are also the representatives of China traditional culture, the crystallization of China people's wisdom and intangible "intangible cultural heritage". The state specially adjusts the vacation system and incorporates traditional festivals such as Dragon Boat Festival into public holidays, in order to let people remember the traditions, prevent these intangible cultural heritages from gradually losing in the process of desalination, and inherit and carry forward various excellent traditional cultures through joint efforts.
"You have to believe in the eternal Xiang Liu, colorful silk wrapped around millet, and the ending is a hero." After two thousand years of historical changes, the Dragon Boat Festival has become the cultural source of the Chinese nation, integrating diet, exercise, health and epidemic prevention. Deeply loved by people, it has become a cultural symbol that unites people's hearts, national feelings and patriotism.