All the information about the Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. Dragon Boat Festival is held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. Various folk activities, such as offering sacrifices, entertainment and health care, all originate from the seasonal custom of expelling toxin and evil spirits, including offering sacrifices to Qu Yuan, commemorating Wu Zixu, inserting mugwort leaves, hanging calamus, drinking realgar wine, eating zongzi and racing dragon boats to eliminate the five poisons.

2. In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; In September 2009, UNESCO formally considered and approved the inclusion of China Dragon Boat Festival in the world intangible cultural heritage, making it the first festival in China to be selected as the world intangible cultural heritage.

Literally, the Dragon Boat Festival also has names such as Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu and Chongwu. "Duan" has the meaning of beginning and ending in ancient Chinese, and calling "Duan Wu" is just like calling "the fifth day". "Local Customs" said: "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival. End, start. " There are three five days in a month, and the first five days are the Dragon Boat Festival.

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Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China. 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.

2. Its contents mainly include: "Daughter goes back to her parents' home, hangs Zhong Kui statue, welcomes ghost boats, hides in the afternoon, sticks leaves in the afternoon, hangs calamus and wormwood, swims in all diseases, wears sachets, prepares sacrificial bowls, races dragon boats, flies kites, plays ball games, swings, bathes children with bitter herbs and wheat, draws realgar, and drinks realgar wine and calamus wine.

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Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Boat Festival (one of the four traditional festivals in China)