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When is the Dragon Boat Festival?

The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, and is also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Noon Day Festival, the May Festival, etc. The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It was originally a festival for Chinese people to cure diseases and prevent epidemics. Later, it was said that the patriotic poet Qu Yuan died on this day. It also became a traditional festival for the Chinese Han people to commemorate Qu Yuan to surround the talented and independent Chu State. It was inspired by the doctor Qu Yuan and spread to all parts of China. Folk culture is widely enjoyed. Qu Yuan's name is well known to everyone, recalling the noble feelings of the Chinese nation. However, some areas also commemorate Wu Zixu, Cao E, etc., and the custom of dragon boat racing and tribal totem sacrifices on this day in the land of Wu and Yue is earlier than the Spring and Autumn Period. During the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs of eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, mugwort, moxa leaves, smoked atractylodes and angelica, and drinking realgar wine. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national statutory holidays and is included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

The Dragon Boat Festival (Dragon Boat Festival or Double Fifth Festival in English), also known as the Duanyang Festival, falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year

Illustrated Dragon Boat Festival

In Japan, in Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou, and Sichuan, the Dragon Boat Festival is divided into the Big Dragon Boat Festival and the Little Dragon Boat Festival. The Little Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, and the Big Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifteenth day of the fifth lunar month every year.

To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular and grand festival among the Chinese people. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20, 2006, this folk custom was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.

On September 30, 2009, the fourth meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage was reviewed and approved for inclusion in the "Intangible Culture of Humanity" in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Among the 76 items in the "List of Heritage Masterpieces", China's "Dragon Boat Festival" is among them. This is China's first

Dragon Boat Festival food album (21 photos)

the first festival to be selected as a world intangible cultural heritage. [1]

Article 2 of the "Decision of the State Council on Amending the Measures for National Holidays and Memorial Days" (effective from January 1, 2008) stipulates, "Holidays for all citizens to take holidays:... … (5) Dragon Boat Festival, one day off (on the Dragon Boat Festival in the lunar calendar) [2]…” Accordingly, since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been officially listed as a national statutory holiday. Today, with increasingly diverse cultures and increasingly rich information, traditional Chinese festivals such as the Dragon Boat Festival face many challenges. This urgently requires people to keep pace with the times, not only to maintain tradition, but also to adapt to today's people's needs.