The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Duan Yang Festival, the Wuzhi Festival, the May Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, and the Bathing Orchid Festival.

Duanwu Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is one of the four major traditional Chinese festivals. According to the "Jing Chu chronicle" records, because of midsummer, Shunyang on the May is midsummer, it is the first noon of the day is the first day of good weather Shunyang, so the fifth day of May is also known as the "Duanyang Festival".

Duanwu customs are mainly food dumplings and dragon boat racing. The custom of eating rice dumplings, for thousands of years in China; dragon boat race in southern China along the coast is very prevalent, spread abroad by the people of various countries and the formation of international competitions.

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