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Dragon Boat Festival is the earliest health and epidemic prevention festival in China.

Yes, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival in China. Primitive ancestors hoped to drive away all disasters and evils with the dragon's deterrent. Since then, the Dragon Boat Festival has been handed down in the form of eliminating diseases, avoiding soldiers and ghosts, and exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters. Dragon boat race, wrap hands and feet with colored thread, wrap zongzi with neem leaves and reed leaves, pick mugwort leaves, wash your hair with calamus water, and drink realgar wine and cinnabar wine.

Leaping in May does not "leap" the Dragon Boat Festival;

There are two "May 5th" in leap May. Does this mean there are two Dragon Boat Festival? In this regard, folklore experts said that the leap in May is not the "leap" of the Dragon Boat Festival. Chen Jing, director of the Folk Culture Research Center of Nanjing University, said that according to the relevant regulations of folk customs, any festival must have three elements: a fixed name, a fixed custom and a fixed date.