Blessings From PROBEST, Blessings on The Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural celestial phenomena and evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in ancient times. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven lodges soared in the center of the south, in the year's most “in the right” position, as the “I Ching - Qian Gua” fifth line: “Flying Dragon in the sky”. Dragon Boat Festival is “flying dragon in the sky” auspicious day, the dragon and dragon boat culture has always been throughout the history of the Dragon Boat Festival in the inheritance.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese Character Cultural Circle. During the Warring States period, Qu Yuan, a poet of the Chu state, jumped into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month to kill himself, and the Dragon Boat Festival has been commemorated by later generations; it is also said to be in honor of Wu Zixu, Cao'e, and Jie Zi Tui, and so on. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy, and other aspects, and contains deep and rich cultural connotations. In the development of inheritance, a variety of folklore has been blended into one, and there are differences in the content or details of the customs in various places due to different regional cultures.

The Dragon Boat Festival is known as one of the four major traditional festivals in China, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The culture of Dragon Boat Festival has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. in May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; since 2008, it has been listed as a national legal holiday.

In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inscription on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, making the Dragon Boat Festival the first Chinese festival to be selected as a World Intangible Heritage.

Blessings from PROBEST, blessings on the Dragon Boat Festival. Our holiday is June 8th-10th, and we will work on June 11th.