Who is the custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate?

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is in memory of Qu Yuan.

Qu Yuan threw himself into the river on the fifth day of May. Trapped by dragons after death, the world mourned. He throws colorful silk zongzi into the water every day to drive away the dragon. It is also said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people immediately rowed for rescue, and all the way to Dongting Lake, but Qu Yuan's body was not found.

It was raining at that time, and the boats on the lake gathered at the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that it was to salvage the sage Dr. Qu, they went out in the rain and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to mourn, people rowed on rivers, and later it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival are all related to commemorating Qu Yuan.

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Qu Yuan's influence on later generations;

First, the influence of Qu Yuan's life consciousness on later literary creation.

The life consciousness embodied in Qu Yuan's works is mainly manifested in two aspects. On the one hand, time flies, beauty's sense of urgency and cold sense of death.

Facing the changes of the four seasons in nature, it can arouse people's sense of time and life, and the ancient China literati's expression of the sense of disappearance of beauty is endless from generation to generation. But no one has felt a sense of urgency or even fear in the face of fleeting time like Qu Yuan.

Second, the influence of patriotism in Qu Yuan's literary works on later generations.

As a great patriot and patriotic poet, Qu Yuan was admired by later generations. His deep and persistent patriotic enthusiasm, his spirit of persisting in ideals, unyielding death, pursuing truth and boldly criticizing reality in political struggle set an example for later writers. There are many poems in Lisao that show Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit.

Other folk activities of the Dragon Boat Festival:

Balongzhou

Dragon boat picking is an important activity of Dragon Boat Festival, a ritual of ancient dragon totem sacrifice and a kind of heritage. It is still very popular in the southern coastal areas of China. After it was spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people all over the world and formed an international competition. Archaeology shows that about 7000 years ago, the ancestors of Lingnan, who thrived along the coast, used canoes for fishing in the offshore.

Tie a five-color line

In the traditional culture of China, the five colors "blue, red, white, black and yellow" symbolizing the five elements are regarded as auspicious colors. Multicolored silk thread or the legacy of ancient southerners' tattoos, it was once a very popular holiday custom to tie the arm with colorful silk thread during the Dragon Boat Festival. Passed on to future generations, it developed into many beautiful decorations, such as longevity wisps, longevity locks, sachets and so on. Its production has become increasingly exquisite and has become a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.

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