What month is Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. In traditional festivals, the diversity and complexity of folk customs, or only the Dragon Boat Festival can be compared with the Spring Festival, all have etiquette and custom themes such as praying for good fortune and eliminating disasters, which pin people's desire to welcome good fortune and ward off evil spirits.

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; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.

Inheritance and development

Since the Republic of China, after decades of changing customs, many old customs of the Dragon Boat Festival have been forgotten, but the Dragon Boat Festival is still a popular traditional festival among the people, and Zongzi is an essential holiday food.

65438+On February 7th, 2007, the 1 98th executive meeting in the State Council adopted the "Decision of the State Council on Amending the National Festival and Memorial Day", which officially listed the Dragon Boat Festival as a national legal holiday and stipulated that the Dragon Boat Festival would be closed1day.