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 Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional Chinese festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of the state of Chu in the Warring States period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month of May. There are also statements in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui.

The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional Chinese festivals, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects of the content, contains deep and rich cultural connotation, in the inheritance and development of a variety of folk customs as a whole. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in the content or details of customs. The two most important activities of the Dragon Boat Festival are eating zongzi and racing the boat, both related to the dragon. Zongzi are thrown into the river to offer sacrifices to the dragon God, while dragon boats are used to race across the river. Dragon boat racing is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, so it is also called the Dragon Boat Festival.

The formation of the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival can be said to be the product of the integration of the customs of the north and the south, and with the development of history, it has injected new content. In the field of folk culture, the Chinese people associate the Dragon Boat race and eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival with the memory of Qu Yuan.

Dragon boat activities are very popular in the southern coastal areas of China, and after being spread abroad, they are loved by people of all countries and formed an international competition. The custom of eating Zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival has prevailed throughout China since ancient times, and has become one of the folk eating customs with the greatest influence and the most extensive coverage of the Chinese nation. During the Dragon Boat Festival, through traditional folk activities and performances, it can not only enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

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