Chinese culture has a long history, extensive and profound, and ancient festivals are important carriers of traditional culture. The formation of ancient festivals contains profound and rich cultural connotations. Ancient festivals attach great importance to the belief and sacrificial activities of ancestor gods, and the belief of ancestor gods is the core of ancient traditional festivals. Dragon Boat Festival customs, diverse forms, rich and colorful content, lively festival. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, flying dragon in the day, dragon gas exuberant, all evil are avoided. The Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival for praying for good fortune and warding off evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. Dragon Boat Festival custom content rich and colorful, these festival customs around the worship of the dragon, blessing, disaster and other forms of the launch, consign people to welcome good luck, exorcism evil desire. Dragon Boat Festival has been eating zongzi and Dragon Boat Festival since ancient times, Dragon Boat Festival when the lively dragon boat show, happy food banquet, are the embodiment of the celebration of the festival.
The Dragon Boat Festival in the historical development and evolution of a variety of folk customs as one, due to the different regional culture throughout the country and there are customs content or details of the differences. Dragon Boat Festival customs are mainly dragon-boat, offering dragon, gathering herbs, hanging mugwort and calamus, worship, washing herbal water, midday water, immersion dragon boat water, eating reed, put paper kite, see dragon boat, tie five-color silk thread, fumigated atractylodes, fragrant sachets and so on. Dragon-boat racking is very popular in the southern coastal areas of China. After spreading abroad, it is deeply loved by people of all countries and has become an international competition. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular throughout China since ancient times, and has become one of the most influential and extensive folk dietary customs of the Chinese nation. During the Dragon Boat Festival through traditional folk activities, not only can enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, but also can inherit and promote traditional culture. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world. Some countries and regions also have activities to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival.
