Dragon Boat Festival information 200 words

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also called Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival and May Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is one of the national legal holidays in China, and it has been included in the world intangible cultural heritage list. Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It was originally a festival for China people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Wuyue, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, because the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became a traditional festival for the Han people in China to commemorate Qu Yuan. The Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of eating zongzi, drinking realgar wine, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, smoking Atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica and racing dragon boats.