Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient traditional festival started in which historical period in China

The Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient traditional festival that began more than 2,000 years ago in China during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.

The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. According to the "Jing Chu chronicle" records, because of the mid-summer, Shunyang on the May is mid-summer, it is the first noon of the day is the first day of Shunyang good weather, so the fifth day of May is also known as the "Duanyang Festival". In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival" and so on. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China, initially for the ancient Baiyue region (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south of the region) worship of the dragon totem tribes to hold a totem festival, the Baiyue land before the Spring and Autumn Period in the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in the form of a dragon boat race held in the tribal totem rituals custom. Later, due to the warring states period of chu (now hubei) poet qu yuan in the day hold stone jump miluo river to kill himself, the ruler for the establishment of loyalty and patriotism label will be the Dragon Boat Festival as a commemoration of qu yuan; part of the region also commemorates the wu zixu, cao e and other sayings. The Dragon Boat Festival, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, are known as the four traditional festivals of the Han Chinese.

Since ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival has been characterized by festive activities such as rowing dragon boats and eating rice dumplings. Since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national holiday, and in May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; in September 2009, UNESCO formally considered and approved the inclusion of the Dragon Boat Festival in the world's intangible cultural heritage, making it the first festival in China to be included in the world's intangible heritage.