«Sparse several dots of yellow plum rains, special parties and meet the heavy five.» A customary festival that has
been passed down for more than 2,000 years, «Dragon Boat Festival» comes along with the fragrance of zongzi.
In order to create a cheerful atmosphere, reflect the company’s care for employees and enhance their sense of
belonging to the
company, wanrooe sent zongzi and duck eggs to all employees on the occasion of Dragon Boat Festival on May 31, 2022,
to further guide them to understand and feel the Chinese traditional culture.
It was the time when zongzi smelled good again and the Dragon Boat Festival arrived. In the meeting room, Anthony
personally presented zongzi and duck eggs to the employees and sent sincere wishes to their families on behalf of the
company leaders.
Holding the Dragon Boat Festival gifts, each employee could feel the deep care from the company
leaders. One by one gifts, one by one thank you, the tacit understanding between each other has been full.
wanrooe has always been committed to building an enterprise that gives employees a sense of pride, happiness and
belonging. Under the guidance of this concept, the company has been striving to build a comfortable and clean working
environment, creating a «simple, harmonious and pure» working atmosphere, in addition to the rich and colorful
cultural activities to let employees feel the company’s consideration and care.
Since its establishment, we have been giving holiday benefits to our employees every year, which has become an
important manifestation of wanrooe’s care for its employees, and at the same time, wanrooe will take practical actions
to show the importance of the company to its employees and convey its care for them.
The custom of Dragon Boat Festival is a celebration and expectation of life, nature, beautiful personality and happy
life. The Dragon Boat Festival is especially loved by the public, but also stems from people’s identification with the
traditional cultural background of the nation, and the commemoration of Qu Yuan is one of the most distinctive themes
of the festival.
In the era of globalization and the great convergence of world cultures, it is our mission to enhance
national cohesion, pass on the cultural spirit represented by Qu Yuan, and integrate cultural heritage into folk
festivals by carrying out traditional festive activities, so that the fine national cultural traditions can be renewed
in modern life. Here, wanrooe wishes all the staff a happy Dragon Boat Festival!
Origin of the Dragon Boat Festival
Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat
Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., is a collection of worship to the gods and
ancestors, pray for blessings to ward off evil spirits, celebration and entertainment and food as one of the big folk
festival.
Dragon Boat Festival originated from natural celestial worship, evolved from the ancient times dragon
sacrifice. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon soars in the center of the south, in the most «positive»
position throughout the year, as the «I Ching — Qian Gua» fifth line: «flying dragon in the sky. Dragon Boat Festival
is «flying dragon in the sky» auspicious day, dragon and dragon boat culture has always been throughout the history of
the Dragon Boat Festival heritage.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and the countries of the Chinese
cultural circle, the legend says that during the Warring States period, the Chu poet Qu Yuan jumped into the Miluo
River on the fifth day of the fifth month and killed himself, later people will also take the Dragon Boat Festival as
a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; there is also a commemoration of Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui and other sayings.
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other
aspects of content, contains a deep and rich cultural connotation, in the inheritance and development of a blend of a
variety of folklore as one, there are differences in the content or details of customs around the region due to
different regional cultures.
Dragon Boat Festival and Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and known as China’s four
traditional festivals. 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 holiday. The first festival to be selected as a World
Intangible Cultural Heritage.
On October 25, 2021, the General Office of the State Council issued a notice on the arrangement of some holidays in
2022, the Dragon Boat Festival in 2022: June 3-5, a total of three days off.
Dragon Boat Festival customs
The main customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are dragon boat
racing, eating zongzi, picking herbs, hanging mugwort and calamus, worshipping the gods and ancestors, putting paper
kites, drinking pope wine, Xionghuang wine, vermilion wine, playing horse ball, jumping Zhong Kui, fighting grass,
etc., of which dragon boat racing and eating zongzi are the most important and iconic customs.
