What kind of festival is the Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it. In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list;

Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival for China people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Wuyue, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, because the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became a traditional festival for the Han people in China to commemorate Qu Yuan. Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of China people for more than two thousand years.

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Among all the traditional festivals in China, the name of Dragon Boat Festival is the most, reaching more than 20, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Summer Festival, Ai Festival, Shangri-La Festival, May Festival, Acorus Festival, Tianyi Festival, Herbal Festival, Magnolia Festival, Daughter's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dila Festival and Zhengyang Festival. The origin of several names of Dragon Boat Festival;