The term "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the "Feng Tu Ji" by Zhou Chu, a famous official in the Western Jin
Dynasty: "The Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is also called May 5th, and this day is the same as the summer solstice."
Duan, ancient Chinese has the meaning of beginning and initial , To call "Duanwu" is also called "Fifth Day". The 
ancients used to call the first few days of May separately. Chen Yuanliang of the Yuan Dynasty said in "Sui Shi Guang Ji":
"People from the city of Jingshi take the first day of May as the first day of the month, the second day of the second day
as the second day, and count to five. End five. "The ancients used zodiac signs throughout the year, and "May" and 
"Moon Moon" were connected. "Shuowen Jiezi" contains: "Duan, the topic of the beginning of things", that is, the 
meaning of saying that the beginning is the beginning, so the fifth day of May is called the Dragon Boat Festival. In the 
pre-Qin period, the Dragon Boat Festival was the midday to the sun on the midday of the moon, and the Han Dynasty 
changed the Dragon Boat Festival to "the fifth day of May" in order to facilitate the festival.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a large folk festival that integrates praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, 
celebrating entertainment and eating. The customs mainly include dragon boat racing, dragon worship, picking herbs, 
hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, washing herbal water, worshiping gods and ancestors, dipping dragon boat
water, eating dragon boat rice, eating rice dumplings, putting paper dragons, putting paper kites, and tying five-color 
silk threads. , Wearing sachets and so on. The activity of picking dragon boats is very popular in the coastal area of ​​
southern China. After being spread abroad, it has been loved by people from all over the world and has formed an
international competition. The custom of eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival has prevailed
throughout China since ancient times and has become one of the most influential and widely covered folk eating 
customs of the Chinese nation.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. It not only clearly records the rich and colorful
social life and cultural content of the ancestors, but also accumulates profound historical and cultural connotations. 
During the Dragon Boat Festival, various festive activities are carried out all over the country, full of festival flavor, lively
 and joyous. Just like the song: "May 5th, it's Duanyang; eat rice dumplings and hang sachets; door sticks with Ai, the 
fragrance is full of temples; dragon boats go into the water with joy."
The content of Dragon Boat Festival is rich and colorful, and there are differences in custom content or details across
the country due to different regions and cultures. These festivals and customs revolve around the forms of offering 
sacrifices to dragons, praying for blessings, and fighting disasters, entrusting people's desire to welcome prosperity,
ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. Traditional festival rituals and related custom activities are important 
contents of festival elements. During the Dragon Boat Festival, various traditional folk activities and performances can
 not only enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, but also inherit and promote traditional culture.