1. The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dangwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Chang Festival, Pu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Qu Yuan Day, Noon Day Festival, Girl's Day, Di La Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Day, Noon Day, Lantern Festival, Wudan Festival and so on.
2. The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. It is one of my country’s national statutory holidays and has been included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
3. The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It was originally a festival for the Chinese people to cure diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in the land of Wu and Yue, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat racing on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month; later, due to the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, so it became a traditional festival for the Chinese to commemorate Qu Yuan; in some areas, there are also commemorations of Wu Zixu and Cao E.
4. During the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs of eating rice dumplings, drinking realgar wine, hanging calamus, mugwort, moxa leaves, smoked atractylodes and angelica, and racing dragon boats.