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Dragon Boat Festival Wellness

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2023-06-22

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The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Boat Festival, Double Boat Festival, Double Five Festival, and Tianzhong Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month each year. It is a folk festival that integrates worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, celebrating and entertaining, and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of dragons in ancient times. In the midsummer of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Canglong Qixiu flew up in the center of Zhengnan, occupying the most "central position" throughout the year, as stated in the fifth line of the Qiangua in the Book of Changes: "Flying dragons are in the sky. The Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day of "flying dragons in the sky", and the dragon and dragon boat culture have always been passed down in the history of the Dragon Boat Festival. [1-3]
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and various countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. It is said that during the Warring States period, Qu Yuan, a poet of the Chu state, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later generations also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; There are also statements commemorating Wu Zixu, Cao E, and Jie Zitui. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy, and other aspects, containing profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, various folk customs are mixed into one, and there are differences in customs or details due to regional cultural differences. [36] [101 104] [108]
The Dragon Boat Festival, together with the Spring Festival, Tomb sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals in China. The Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions around the world also have activities to celebrate it. In May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity", making the Dragon Boat Festival the first festival in China to be included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

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