The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival with a history of more than a thousand years. It is full of the essence of Chinese traditional culture and has always occupied an important position in the hearts of Chinese people.

　　There are many opinions about the origin and customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. One of them is that "Dragon Boat Festival is the ancestor worship day of the people who worship the dragon totem."

　　The dragon is a symbol of the Chinese nation.

Legend has it that the ancestors of the Huaxia tribe used the dragon as the symbol of the tribe. Fuxi, Nüwa and Yu are all famous leaders of the dragon clan, and descendants claim to be the descendants of the dragon and the descendants of the dragon.

Every year on the fifth day of May, the ancient ancestors held a grand dragon festival, so the Dragon Boat Festival was a "dragon festival" at that time.

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping once interpreted the descendants of the dragon in this way: "The culture has never ceased, and it is only China that has always been passed down. Those of us also continue to have black hair and yellow skin. We are called the descendants of the dragon."

　　From the heirs of the dragon to the inheritance of the dragon culture, the long-standing and glorious Chinese culture has nourished generations of Chinese children, endowed the Chinese with unique spiritual temperament, and accumulated a rich heritage of cultural self-confidence.

Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia, is named after the ochre-red granite peaks in the northeast of the city. The territory has 8,000 years of human civilization. The iconic artifact of Hongshan Culture, "Jade Dragon", is defined by historiography as "the first dragon of China."

Image source: Chifeng Museum

　　General Secretary Xi Jinping proposed in the report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to forge the consciousness of the community of the Chinese nation.

He mentioned this statement again when he participated in the deliberations of the Inner Mongolia delegation on March 5, 2018.

Archaeological discoveries such as "China's First Village" and "China's First Dragon" eloquently show that the Chinese nation has been a community since ancient times.

　　Cultural self-confidence built on the heritage of more than 5,000 years of civilization is also a more basic, broader, and deeper self-confidence.

　　Dragon boat racing is one of the important festival folk activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is also a national intangible cultural heritage, which has been passed down since ancient times.

The dragon boat race represents the national spirit of hard work, enterprising, and positive progress, and contains the cohesion and centripetal force of the descendants of the dragon to strive for self-improvement, advance with the times, and unite and struggle.

The 2021 Jiangsu Dragon Boat Classic (Nanjing Station) and the 4th Qinhuai River Dragon Boat Race will be held.

　　The drum sound of "Boom Boom" is the horn of charge. With an order, the dragon boat team members are working hard for the common goal.

A leaf of a dragon boat travels through the blue waves, sending a strong festive atmosphere, and also carrying the Chinese nation’s spiritual gene of "upward for good".

　　On November 26, 2013, General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out during an inspection tour in Shandong that to promote China’s excellent traditional culture, it is necessary to form "upward forces" and "power for good"; February 25, 2021, the National Poverty Alleviation Summary and Commendation Conference At the meeting, General Secretary Xi Jinping once again emphasized: "As long as we are firm in our moral pursuit and continuously stimulate the positive energy of the whole society to be good, we will definitely be able to provide inexhaustible spiritual power for the Chinese nation to ride the wind and waves and move forward in big strides!"

　　It is precisely under the nourishment of this upward spirit of goodness and the joint efforts of the whole party and the people of all ethnic groups in the country to greet the centenary anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of my country. Arduous task".

　　"We are Chinese sons and daughters. We must understand the history of the Chinese nation, inherit Chinese cultural genes, and have national pride and cultural self-confidence. We must always think of the country and the people everywhere. '."

　　The descendants of Long are guided by the spirit of patriotism.

For more than two thousand years, the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan has worried about his family and country, loved the people, and has the courage to explore. His upright and noble personality has become the standard of personality for generations of Chinese people.

　　For one hundred years, under the leadership of the Communist Party of China, countless people with lofty ideals have succeeded in succession.

From Zhao Yiman’s belief in "willing to enrich China with passion" to Jiao Yulu's ambition of "going to the masses and sharing weal and woe with them"; from Huang Danian’s responsibility of "the motherland’s needs is the highest need" to Yuan Longping’s "to keep everyone away from hunger" The oath...The descendants of generations of dragons, on the journey to stand up, become rich, and become strong, earnestly shoulder the mission entrusted by the times, and use the spirit of patriotism to support their dreams of revival.

On the afternoon of March 22, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who was visiting Wuyishan City, Fujian Province, came to Zhu Xi Garden to learn about Zhu Xi's life and scientific research.

　　On March 22, 2021, General Secretary Xi Jinping talked about cultural self-confidence during an inspection visit to Zhu Xiyuan in Wuyishan City, Fujian: "If there were no Chinese civilization for five thousand years, where would there be any Chinese characteristics? If it were not for Chinese characteristics, how could we be so successful today? The path of socialism with Chinese characteristics?"

　　Standing at the historical intersection of the "two centenary" goals, we will inherit an endless precious legacy, evoke the lofty ambitions of hundreds of millions of dream chasers with the light of cultural confidence, and gather together on the journey towards great rejuvenation. Go forward with strength and courage!

　　(CCTV Network of China Central Radio and Television)