What Is The Story Behind Dragon Boat Festival?

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, one of the national holidays, and has been included in the world intangible cultural heritage list, the origin of this festival is said to be the Warring States period. It has a history of more than 2,000 years.  The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as ruiyang festival and the fifth festival. It is said that the Dragon Boat Festival is related to Qu Yuan.

Qu yuan was a minister of the state of chu during the spring and autumn period. He advocated the promotion of the wise and the ability to enrich the country and strengthen the army,  and urged the Lord to unite against the Qin Dynasty, which was strongly opposed by the aristocrat Zi LAN and others.  However, he was set up by a base person. He was expelled from the capital by the king of Chu and exiled to a distant land. Hearing the news that Qin troops had captured Chu capital, his heart was torn with grief and anger. Qu Yuan saw the invasion of the motherland, heartbroken, on the fifth day of the lunar calendar, picked up the stone, jumped into theMiluo river.

After the legend of Qu Yuan's death, the people of chu were devastated. They came to the pooluo river to salvage the body of qu yuan. The fishermen rowing the boat back and forth on the river, a fisherman took out for qu yuan prepared rice balls, eggs and other food throw into the river, saying is to feed the fish, lobster, crab will not go to the bite the body of Qu Yuan. People suit. An old doctor also brought a realgar wine and poured it into the river, hoping that the dragon water beast would faint after drinking it, and would not harm the body of Qu Yuan. Later, people were afraid that the dragon would eat the rice balls, and then they would cover the rice with neem leaves, and then they would be wrappe d in colorful strings and turned into dumplings and thrown into the river,Develops into brown seed.From then on, every year on May 5, there was the custom of racing dragon boat, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation and an important part of Chinese culture, which contains rich humanistic spirit. In this festival, we can deeply feel the long history and profound Chinese culture. We Funsoon Packaging should also express our blessings and respect in various ways, and pray for the prosperity of the motherland, social harmony and stability, and the people's peace and contentment.