What folk activities are there on the Dragon Boat Festival?

The Dragon Boat Festival has the following folk activities: dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and wearing sachets.

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also called Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival and May Festival. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national legal holidays in China, and has been included in the world intangible cultural heritage list. Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It 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 people of China to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E are also commemorated.

Dragon Boat Festival (English, Dragon Boat Festival or Double Five Festival) is also called Duanyang Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. In Hubei, Hunan, Guizhou and Sichuan, the Dragon Boat Festival is divided into big Dragon Boat Festival and small Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon's Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and the Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifteenth of the fifth lunar month. Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, this folk custom was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. On September 30th, 2009, the meeting of UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage held in Abu Dhabi, the capital of United Arab Emirates, decided that China Dragon Boat Festival was successfully selected into the World Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of China people for more than two thousand years. Due to the vast territory, numerous nationalities and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names are produced, but also different customs exist in different places. Its contents mainly include: daughter going back to her mother's house, hanging Zhong Kui statue, welcoming the ghost boat, hiding in the afternoon, sticking leaves in the afternoon, hanging calamus and wormwood, traveling in all diseases, wearing sachets, preparing sacrificial bowls, dragon boat races, competitions, hitting the ball, swinging, drawing children with realgar, drinking realgar wine, drinking calamus wine, eating poisonous cakes, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fresh fruits.