The Dragon Boat Festival is relatively familiar to all of us. After all, it is a national statutory holiday and it will be a holiday. We only know that the Dragon Boat Festival will be a holiday, so do we know the origin and customs of the Dragon Boat Festival? Next, I will introduce the origin and customs of the Dragon Boat Festival to you.

The Dragon Boat Festival is used to commemorate Qu Yuan, and it first appeared in the Southern Dynasties’ “Xu Qi Xie Ji” and “Jing Chu Sui Ji Ji”. It is said that after Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the local people immediately rowed boats to salvage it. At that time, it was a rainy day, and the boats on the lake gathered together on the lake to salvage Qu Yuan’s body. So it developed into dragon boating. The people did not salvage Qu Yuan’s body, and they were afraid that the fish and shrimp in the river would eat his body, so they went home and threw rice balls into the river to prevent the fish and shrimp from eating Qu Yuan’s body. This formed the custom of eating zongzi.