Loong Boat Festival is a folk festival integrating worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and exorcism, celebrating entertainment and eating. The customs mainly include rowing a Loong Boat, offering sacrifices to the dragon, picking herbs, rushing to the medicine market, hanging wormwood and calamus, playing noon water, washing herbs, sticking noon time symbols, worshipping gods and ancestors, soaking Loong Boat water, eating Loong Boat rice, eating Zongzi, fumigation, putting paper kites, tying five color silk threads, wearing sachets, etc. As one of the four traditional festivals in China, it not only clearly records the rich and colorful social and cultural content of our ancestors, but also accumulates profound historical and cultural connotations.

The Loong Boat Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from dragon worship in ancient times. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the seven mansions of the Azure Dragon ascend to the center of the south, just as the ninth line of the Book of Changes says: 'Flying Dragon in Heaven'. The ancients worshipped the dragon ancestor on the auspicious day of "Flying Dragon in the Sky", and held some festive activities, especially the activities corresponding to the "dragon", such as Loong Boat riding, or doing some activities to pray for good fortune and ward off evil spirits on the auspicious day. The Dragon Boat Festival is a "Dragon Festival", and the dragon and Loong Boat culture run through the historical inheritance of the Loong Boat Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival customs are rich and colorful, and there are differences in customs or details across the country due to regional cultural differences. These festivals revolve around forms such as worshiping dragons, praying for blessings, and warding off disasters, expressing people's wishes to welcome good fortune, ward off evil and eliminate disasters. Traditional festival rituals and related customs and activities are important elements of festivals. During the Loong Boat Festival, performances of various traditional folk activities can not only enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, but also well inherit and carry forward traditional culture. (Source: Encyclopedia)

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