Is China's Dragon Boat Festival a World Intangible Cultural Heritage Site

The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a world intangible cultural heritage.

Reasons for Inclusion

1. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival that falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar and has a history of more than 2,500 years. The festival custom of driving away poison and evil spirits has given rise to rich and colorful folk activities such as rituals, amusement and health care in various places, which mainly include worshipping Qu Yuan, commemorating Wu Zixu, inserting moxa, hanging calamus, drinking xionghuang wine, eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, and getting rid of the five poisons, and so on.

2, a variety of activities due to regional differences and slightly different. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival with unique national spirit and rich cultural connotations, which has a significant impact on Chinese folk life.

Extended information:

< p>1, the Dragon Boat Festival, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four major traditional Chinese festivals. The culture of Dragon Boat Festival has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

2. In May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; since 2008, it has been listed as a national legal holiday.

3. In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, making the Dragon Boat Festival the first Chinese festival to be selected as a World Intangible Heritage.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Duanwu Festival

References:

China.com- Intangible Cultural Heritage- -Chinese Dragon Boat Festival