The Dragon Boat Festival (also known as: Duan Yang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Day Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival, English name: Dragon Boat Festival) is China's first festival selected for the World Intangible Cultural Heritage, which originated in ancient China, and takes place on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a summer festival to drive away the gods of plague and to sacrifice dragons, but later it was adopted as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, as well as Wu Zixu, Cao E, and Jie Zitui. There are folk customs such as "picking the dragon boat", "eating zongzi", "flying paper kites", "hanging moxa calamus" and so on.

The word "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the Western Jin Dynasty, the "record of customs": "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the month of May, the common weight of this day, and the summer solstice." Duan, the ancient Chinese language has the beginning, the initial meaning, said "Duanwu" is also known as "the first five". "Shuowen Jiezi": "end, the topic of the first born also", that is, the end of the meaning of the first, so the first five days of May is known as "Duanwu Festival". Yanjing yu shi ji": "the first five for the May single five, cover "end" the word of the transcription is also." Ancient people used to the first few days of May respectively to end to address, "the age of the record" said: "the capital city dust people, the first day of May for the end of the first, the second for the end of the second, the number of five to the end of the five so-called end of the five." The first noon of the month of five (noon), called the Dragon Boat Festival.