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What are the traditional programs of Dragon Boat Festival?

The traditional programs of Dragon Boat Festival include rowing dragon boats, flying kites, eating zongzi and hanging Ai. Dragon boat rowing, also known as dragon boat rowing, is a multi-person collective rowing competition, which is the main custom of the traditional Dragon Boat Festival of the Han nationality and one of the representatives of the dragon totem culture of the Han nationality.

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, the first afternoon of the Dragon Boat Festival is a sunny day, so the fifth day of May is also called "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Bathing Orchid Festival".