The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Double Ninth Festival and the mid day festival, is a folk festival integrating worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and ward off evil spirits, celebration, entertainment and diet. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in ancient times. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the green dragon seven nights soared in the center of the due south, which is the most "Zhongzheng" position in the whole year, just as "the flying dragon is in the sky" in the fifth chapter of the book of changes qiangua. The Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day of "flying dragon in the sky". The dragon and dragon boat culture has always run through the inheritance history of the Dragon Boat Festival.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of the state of Chu in the Warring States period, jumped into the Miluo River and committed suicide on May 5. Later generations also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; There are also statements in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, contains profound and rich cultural connotation, and integrates a variety of folk customs in the inheritance and development. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in the content or details of customs.
The Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival and the Mid Autumn Festival are known as the four traditional festivals in China. The Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world. Some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. In May 2006, the State Council listed 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 inclusion in the list of representative works of human intangible cultural heritage, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival selected by China as a world intangible cultural heritage.
On October 25, 2021, the notice of the general office of the State Council on the arrangement of some holidays in 2022 was issued. The Dragon Boat Festival in 2022: three days from June 3 to 5.
| Chinese name | DuanWu Jie |
| Foreign name | Dragon Boat Festival |
| alias | Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc |
| Holiday time | the 5th day of the fifth lunar month |
| Festival type | One of the four traditional festivals in China |
| Epidemic area | China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle |
| Festival origin | Celestial phenomena worship, dragon totem sacrifice |
| Festival activities | Pick dragon boats, put paper kites, hang wormwood and calamus, etc |
| Holiday diet | Zongzi, Wuhuang, salted duck egg, mung bean cake, etc |
| Holiday significance | Inheriting and carrying forward intangible culture |
| Origin period | Ancient times |
| Memorial figures | Qu Yuan, Wu Zixu, Cao E, Jie Zitui, etc |
| National Cultural Heritage | It was listed in the first batch of lists on May 20, 2006 |
| World Cultural Heritage | It was selected into the world list on September 30, 2009 |
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