Duanwu Festival:

The Dragon Boat Festival in ancient times began to dispel diseases and prevent epidemics, and later in honor of Qu Yuan, who threw himself into the river, and then came to commemorate the symbolism of Qu Yuan. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, and at the same time the Dragon Boat Festival promotes national cultural identity and the realization of national wealth and unity. Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include eating zongzi, picking herbs, racing dragon boats, tying five-color silk threads and releasing paper dragons.

The Dragon Boat Festival, the only major summer festival, was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009, along with the Qiang Festival. As an intangible cultural heritage of humanity, the Dragon Boat Festival has deep cultural connotations and great significance in contemporary times.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival of remembrance and worship of noble souls. The Dragon Boat Festival is a time full of life challenges, and a time to defend life, strengthen the soul and stimulate the spirit. Remembering and worshipping the sages who devoted their lives to the country and the people, and promoting the feelings of the family and the country are the distinctive themes of the Dragon Boat Festival. Qu Yuan, as a representative of a loyal figure, is still the object of worship around the world.

China is the hometown of the dragon, the ancestors have long been endowed with the great name of the heir of the dragon. According to the test, the Dragon Boat Festival in fact traces its roots to the ancient times of the southern Wu Yue's totem worship of the dragon.

Thus, the Dragon Boat Festival is said to be the festival of the dragon.

That is to say, in ancient times, in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in the Wu Yue people, that is, convergence of ethnic minorities of the Baiyue people, in the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, there are held on the day of the Dragon Boat Race to the main tribal totem rituals. The ancestors have rafted on the river to welcome the return of the Dragon God from the sea, with a view to bringing a happy life.