How many years has the Dragon Boat Festival been?

Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient traditional festival, which started in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period and has a history of more than 2,000 years.

In the article Dragon Boat Festival, Mr. Wen Yiduo thinks that the Dragon Boat Festival, where dragon boat races are held, originated from the people of Wu Yue in Jiangsu and Zhejiang before the Warring States Period. At that time, the dragon was already the totem of the wuyue nation. Mr. Wen Yiduo believed that it was this dragon totem that later evolved into the totem worship of the whole nation; It was at the Dragon Boat Festival ceremony that I gradually got into the habit of rowing dragon boats.

The earliest dragon boat race in China was discovered in Jia Cun, Yunlong Town, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. According to the prehistoric culture of Hemudu site and Tianluoshan site, canoes and wooden paddles existed as early as 5,000 to 7,000 years ago. The original prototype of dragon boat was carving a dragon-shaped canoe on a canoe, and later it developed into a dragon boat made of wooden boards.