Why is Dragon Boat Festival a traditional festival in China?

1, Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, and the lunar calendar is a unique calendar created by China to guide agriculture.

According to historical records, the Dragon Boat Festival appeared in the pre-Qin period and has lasted for more than 2000 years.

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 30, 2009, at the fourth meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage of UNESCO, 76 projects listed in the List of Representatives of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity were deliberated and approved in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates on September 30, 2009, and the Dragon Boat Festival in China was among them. This is the first festival in China that has been selected as a world intangible cultural heritage. It shows that the Dragon Boat Festival in China has been recognized by the world.

Dragon Boat Festival: It is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, 5th Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Noon Festival, Summer Festival and Pujie Festival. It was originally a festival to drive away the plague in summer. Later, Chu poet Qu Yuan threw himself into the river on the Dragon Boat Festival, which became a festival in memory of Qu Yuan (in memory of Wu Zixu, a loyal minister of the State of Wu).