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When was the first World Heritage Festival in China?

Dragon Boat Festival is the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible cultural heritage.

In September, 2009, UNESCO formally approved the inclusion of China Dragon Boat Festival in the world intangible cultural heritage, making it the first festival in China to be included in the world intangible cultural heritage.

Seven national intangible cultural heritage traditional festivals:

1, Spring Festival

The Spring Festival, the Lunar New Year, is the beginning of a year and a traditional "festival".

2. Tomb-Sweeping Day

Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as outing festival, outing festival, March festival and ancestor worship festival, is celebrated at the turn of mid-spring and late spring.

3. Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Noon Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China.

4. Chinese Valentine's Day

China Valentine's Day, also known as Qiaoqi Festival, Qiaoqi Festival, Qixi Festival and Seven Sisters's birthday, is a comprehensive festival with love as the theme and women as the main body.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, August Festival, Moon Chasing Festival, Moon Worship Festival, Daughter's Day or Reunion Festival, falls on the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month.

6. Double Ninth Festival

Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, is a traditional folk festival in China.

7. Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, that is, the ancestor worship festival in July and a half, is also called Shigu Festival, Ghost Festival, Solitary Festival and Local Officials' Day. Festival customs mainly include ancestor worship, setting off river lanterns, worshipping the dead and burning paper ingots.