As follows:

1. Since ancient times, there have been festival activities such as dragon boat racing and rice dumpling eating during the Dragon Boat Festival. Since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists; in September 2009, UNESCO formally reviewed and approved the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival to be included in the world's intangible cultural heritage, becoming the first Chinese to be included in the world's intangible cultural heritage list. An intangible cultural heritage festival.

2. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival for the Chinese Han people to commemorate Qu Yuan. It is centered around the talented and independent Chu State doctor Qu Yuan. Celebrities are well known, recalling the noble feelings of the Chinese nation.

But there are exceptions. The Dragon Boat Festival in the Soochow area has never commemorated Qu Yuan, but commemorated Wu Zixu who was thrown into the river on May 5th. In the Wuyue area, there is a custom of dragon boat racing and tribal totem sacrifices on this day. It is much earlier than the Spring and Autumn Period.

Origin of the festival

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the dragon totem sacrifice in ancient times. The formation of Dragon Boat Festival customs is related to primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, the Ganzhi calendar, and the celestial phenomenon that the Canglong Qisu is located in the south. The astrological culture in ancient China has a long history and is profound. The ancients began to explore the mysteries of the universe very early, and thus developed a complete and profound stargazing culture.

According to the "Preface to the Spring and Autumn Ming Calendar": "The sky and the earth were opened up, and all things were muddy and ignorant. Based on Yin and Yang, the celestial bodies began in the wilds of the North Pole... The sun and the moon rotated around the five latitudes; the emperor came out... Determined The signs of the sky and the rituals of the earth are used as stems and branches to determine the sun and the moon. In ancient times, people determined the signs of the sky and the rituals of the earth, and combined the ecliptic with the movement and position of the sun, moon and stars. The area near the equator is divided into 28 groups of stars, commonly known as the "Twenty-Eight Constellations". Each of the four directions is divided into seven constellations, namely the "Four Symbols".

In the east, "Jiao, Kang, Di, Fang, Xin, Wei and Ji" form a complete dragon-shaped star, namely Canglong Qisu. The appearance and appearance cycle of Canglong Qisu is consistent with the cycle of the four seasons of the year. It rises in the east in spring, rises in the south in summer, retreats in the west in autumn, and disappears under the northern horizon in winter. In midsummer, the Dragon Boat Festival hangs in the sky in the south.