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What's the date of Dragon Boat Festival 2018? What is the origin of Dragon Boat Festival

It is said that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu state were in great sorrow and rushed to Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. In order to prevent the fish in the river from eating Qu Yuan's body, they will feed the fish with the same food as zongzi, so the Dragon Boat Festival is set up to commemorate Qu Yuan, the great patriotic poet, and has applied for intangible cultural heritage, which is a legal holiday in China.

Q: what is the date of Dragon Boat Festival in 2018?

A: Dragon Boat Festival 2018 is June 18, 2018, Monday, May 5, 2018 in the lunar calendar.

The most popular legend about the origin of Dragon Boat Festival: in memory of Qu Yuan

According to the records of history, Qu Yuan was the Minister of King Huai of Chu in the spring and Autumn period. He advocated the cultivation of talents, the prosperity of the country and the strength of the army, and advocated the alliance against the Qin Dynasty. He was strongly opposed by the aristocrats such as Zilan. Therefore, Qu Yuan was slandered, expelled from the capital, and exiled to the yuan and Xiang river basins. In exile, Qu Yuan wrote immortal poems such as Lisao, Tianwen and Jiuge, which worried about the country and the people.

In 278 BC, the Qin army conquered the capital of Chu. Seeing his motherland being invaded, Qu Yuan was heartbroken, but he could not bear to give up his motherland. After writing his masterpiece "Huaisha" on May 5, he threw stones into Miluo River and died, composing a magnificent patriotic movement with his own life.

It is said that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu state were in great sorrow and rushed to Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed their boats and fished for his body on the river. A fisherman took out the rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river "plop, plop", saying that if the fish, shrimp and crab were full, they would not bite Dr Qu.

People followed suit, and an old doctor poured a jar of realgar wine into the river, saying it was to make Jiaolong water animals faint, so as not to hurt Dr Qu. Later, people came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and wrapping colored silk around rice dumplings for fear that rice dumplings would be eaten by Jiaolong. Later, on the fifth day of May every year, there was the custom of dragon boat race, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine, forming the Dragon Boat Festival over time.

There are many folk customs on Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is in summer. The high temperature and humid weather make diseases happen frequently. Traditionally, when people arrive at the Dragon Boat Festival, they need to bathe with orchid grass, which can drive away the diseases and pestilence that are about to occur. At the same time, in some places among the people, there is also the custom of "one eating, two tying and three picking".

As soon as you eat it, you need to eat five kinds of food with yellow characters in its name. The common ones are eel, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar wine (realgar is toxic, and it is usually replaced by ordinary yellow wine).

The "two ties" are linked with gourds, brooms and five poisons, which represent happiness and wealth. Life can continue to be healthy and healthy, and bad things can be swept away. The five poisons chart can attack poisons with poisons.

"Three harvest" is to collect Artemisia argyi, to drive away bad luck and bad things.