Dragon Boat Festival to eat wheat flower origin, when did it start?

According to the "Jing Chu years" records, because of midsummer, Shunyang on the May is midsummer, it is the first day of the afternoon is the first day of Shunyang good weather, so called the fifth of May for the "Duanyang Festival". Also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Duanyang Festival, heavy five festival, heavy Wuzhi Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Calamus Festival, Pope Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Qu Yuan Day, Bathing Orchid Festival, Wuzhi Festival, Daughters' Festival, Dilah Festival, Poets' Festival, Dragon Festival, Noon Festival, Festival of Lights, Five Eggs Festival, and so on. Dragon Boat Festival is the Chinese Han people to commemorate the traditional festival of Qu Yuan, but also eat zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, artemisia, moxa, fumigation Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, and drink xionghuang wine custom to this day. Dragon Boat Festival in the Chinese people is still a very popular grand festival. Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival is in honor of Qu Yuan, a poet from the state of Chu during the Warring States period, who threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month and died.

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, on May 20, 2006, the State Council approved the inclusion of this folklore in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. "The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the national holidays, and has been included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List!