Dragon Boat Festival, Yangshuo Dragon Boat Festival
With 2,000 years of traditional practices and many legendary stories, Dragon Boat Festival has a large number of the geographical and ethnic masses. Which is one of the oldest traditional festival to the chinese people, also called Duan Wu Jie or Duan Yang Jie. In addition, there are many other names, such as: Double 5 Festival, Bath Festival, Daughter Festival, The Poet Festival and so on. So, it has not only many different sections, but also many different customs. Its contents are: Daughters come back home, Hanging the ZhongKui pictures ( a supernatural being can drive the ghost away) on the wall, Dragon-boat race, KungFu contest, Swinging, Drinking Xiong Huang wine, Eating rice dumplings and seasonal fresh fruit etc. Except the superstitious activities which have gradually disappeared, the others have spread throughout China and neighbouring countries. Take the dragon-boat race for an example, which has had a new development, breaking through the time and geographical boundaries, becoming the international sports events. Up to this day, the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular festival in the grand festivals.
The Origin of the Dragon Boat Festival has a lot of sayings, such as: to commemorate Qu Yuan ; to commemorate Wu Zixu; to commemorate Cao'e and so on. According to the scholars Mr. Wen Yiduo, the origin of Dragon Boat Festival, is the ancient Chinese Wu Yue national festival held totem, much earlier than Qu Yuan saying. But the patriotic spirit of Qu Yuan's poems and touching speeches has been widely enjoying and popular supporting for thousands of years, the people love the saying about to commemorate Qu Yuan. In the field of folk culture, the Dragon Boat Festival and a series of activities about Dragon Boat Festival, linked to commemorate Qu Yuan.