Ai Jun's views on the Dragon Boat Festival in China, Japan and South Korea

Ai Jun's viewpoint was put forward in 2009 with the title of "China and the Dragon Boat Festival between Korea and Japan", which quickly became an important article in China Dragon Boat Festival, Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily, Sina and World Wide Web.

The comparative analysis shows that the Korean Dragon Boat Festival and the China Dragon Boat Festival are different in terms of the same period, different days and different meanings. Although the name and connotation of Japanese Children's Day (Dragon Boat Festival) are essentially different, some customs and meanings of the festival date and period are similar to those of China. For example, eating zongzi, inserting wormwood and calamus to predict good or bad luck are all folk customs.

Ai Jun believes that it is meaningless to argue about the origin and birthplace of a folk culture. The key is to look at the foundation and development of this folk culture in today's life and society. The survival of folk culture is the law of its development, and when the old customs disappear, they are naturally replaced by new ones. The protection of folk culture is not the purpose. What matters is whether this folk custom has a broad mass base, whether it has positive factors to adapt to social progress, and whether it has internal and external soil for its survival and development. If the Dragon Boat Festival is only regarded as a folk festival, it will lose its social significance. However, the Dragon Boat Festival in China is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Therefore, protecting, popularizing and popularizing it has important social and times significance.