The origin of Dragon Boat Festival is very simple.

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of our Chinese nation. Then you will know the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. Take this opportunity to tell you about it ~

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Yulan Festival, is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It started in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. May is midsummer, and its first noon is a good day for climbing mountains and chasing the sun, so the fifth day of May is also called "Duanyang Festival".

The origin of Dragon Boat Festival:

1, in memory of Qu Yuan. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, the local people immediately rowed for rescue and went straight to Dongting Lake, but no body was found. It was rainy at that time, and all the boats on the lake gathered near the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that everyone was salvaging the sage Dr. Qu, they went out in the rain and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake.

2. Dragon Boat Festival. Wen Yiduo mentioned in his two books "Dragon Boat Festival Examination" and "Dragon Boat Festival History Education" that the fifth day of May was the day when the "Dragon" tribe in ancient wuyue held activities. So I rowed a dragon boat to Long Qingsheng.

3. Summer solstice. Liu Deqian thinks that the Dragon Boat Festival is related to the Summer Solstice Festival in Another Theory on the Origin of the Dragon Boat Festival and Interesting Notes on Traditional Festivals in China.