Can anyone tell me the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival?

The word "Duan" means "initial", so "Duanwu" is the "fifth day of the lunar month". According to the calendar, May is the "noon" month, so "Dragon Boat Festival" gradually evolved into "Dragon Boat Festival". "Yanjing Chronicles" records: "The fifth day of the lunar month is the fifth day of the fifth month, which is the transliteration of the word Gaiduan."

Origin legend

. Commemorating Qu Yuan

It is said that the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a poet of the Chu State during the Warring States Period, who committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River on the fifth day of May. Qu Ping, courtesy name Yuan,

Qu Yuan

Commonly known as Qu Yuan, also named Zhengze from Yun, named Lingjun, Han nationality, a native of Danyang (now Zigui, Hubei), Chu State, at the end of the Warring States Period, Chu Descendants of Qu Xia, son of King Wu Xiong Tong. Although Qu Yuan was loyal to King Huai of Chu, he was repeatedly ostracized. After King Huai's death, he was exiled because King Qingxiang believed in slander, and eventually threw himself into the Miluo River and died. {Everyone knows this}

About customs

During the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs of eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, mugwort, mugwort leaves, smoking atractylodes and angelica, and drinking realgar wine. .