Duanwu Festival, the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. According to the "Jing Chu chronicle" records, because of the mid-summer, Shunyang on the May is the mid-summer, its first noon is the day of the good weather Shunyang, so the fifth day of May is also known as the "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival" and so on. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese cultural circle.
The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, initially for the ancient Baiyue region (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south of the region) to worship the dragon totem tribes to hold a totem festival, the Baiyue land in the Spring and Autumn period before the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in the form of a dragon boat race held in the tribal totem rituals of the custom.
After the Warring States period of the Chu poet Qu Yuan in the day to hold the stone jump Miluo River to kill themselves, the rulers in order to establish the loyalty of the ruler and patriotism labeled the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, some regions also commemorated the Wu Zixu, Cao E, and other sayings. The Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and known as the four traditional Chinese Han festivals.