Celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival at special times and draw new strength from traditional culture.

  "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is also called May 5th". Just after the summer solstice, we are about to usher in another Dragon Boat Festival. Because of the "leap moon", this is also one of the three latest Dragon Boat Festival in this century. In the hometown of Qu Yuan in Zigui, Hubei Province, the local Dragon Boat Festival was held with the theme of "China Dragon Boat Festival Poetic Yichang", and the scene+"on the cloud" was adopted to welcome the festival and worship the ancestors with offline and online audiences; In Heilongjiang, people eulogize the Dragon Boat Festival culture and carry forward the new civilization style &hellip through a series of activities such as poems and songs. … On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, various places show the meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival with colorful programs and invite people to enjoy the traditional culture together.

  Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China, and it is also the first festival to be selected as a world intangible cultural heritage. Traditional festivals are important carriers of history and culture, which reflect the ancients’ cognition of the world, their relationship with nature and their attitude towards life, and carry people’s life vision and value pursuit. Therefore, traditional festivals are also a link between ancient and modern times, which allows us to realize the value resonance that transcends history and times in the process of tasting the meaning of traditional festivals.

  As the folk saying goes, "Willows are inserted in the Qingming Festival, and Ai is inserted in the Dragon Boat Festival". During the evolution of thousands of years, many festivals have solidified into rich and diverse cultural customs and holiday fashions. "But pray for the wine to rise to the level", hanging wormwood and calamus, boiling wormwood water to wipe the body and drinking realgar wine, entrusted with a good life wish of getting rid of diseases and disasters, welcoming the good fortune, being safe and healthy; "The festival is divided into the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is rumored to be Qu Yuan through the ages." Dragon boat races and dumplings are not only ceremonial and entertaining holiday etiquette, but also express the memory of patriotic poets and the praise of patriotic spirit and indomitable spirit of seeking for the people. In a sense, it is through specific customs and ceremonies that the wisdom of life and the value of ideas advocated by festivals can be continuously extended.

  Of course, the cultural connotation and spiritual inheritance of festivals are not confined to specific forms. In the long river of history, from the color matching and design of the dragon boat faucet, to the ingredients and wearing methods of sachets, people in different times or regions have added many different characteristics to the Dragon Boat Festival custom.

  This year, under the background of the normalization of epidemic prevention and control in COVID-19, in order to avoid gathering people, many activities related to dragon boat grilling and dragon boat banquets were cancelled, but this did not prevent people from realizing the holiday core of praying for health, paying tribute to noble personality and cultivating feelings of home and country. On the one hand, Dragon Boat Festival is a "health festival" handed down from ancient times, which conforms to the situation of epidemic prevention and control, and the form of festivals is streamlined, which conforms to the connotation of festivals and people’s current mood. Under the impact of the epidemic, the ancient philosophy of conforming to nature, seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is also more brilliant. On the other hand, the epidemic situation provides an opportunity for the innovation of festival forms. Set up "China Dragon Boat Festival Custom Exhibition — — Quyuan’s hometown Yunshang Exhibition Hall, series of live broadcasts of "Exploring the Beautiful Journey of Zigui", Tik Tok Challenge and many other "Yunshang" activities & HELIP; … Let traditional festivals go to the "cloud", its significance lies not only in the innovation of methods, but also in injecting new era connotation into traditional festivals.

  In recent years, from a variety of experiential folk activities to the emergence of new forms of expression such as "live broadcast" and "VR", folk culture, represented by traditional festivals, adheres to the integration of inheritance and innovation, and has entered the lives of more people, making more and more people become relays of cultural inheritance, contributing to retaining cultural roots and keeping the soul of the nation. In fact, innovation in inheritance and inheritance in innovation are also the inevitable ways to inherit cultural heritage. Only in this way can the connotation of traditional festivals be continuously enriched and expanded, and the spirit of festivals can be passed down for thousands of years and last forever.

  Aipu is green and fragrant. Enjoy zongxiang with your family and have a tongue-tip roaming; Join a poem-singing party in the "cloud" and go to a cultural feast together. Let’s feel the elegance and charm of the Dragon Boat Festival together and gain more spiritual strength in the infiltration of traditional culture.