The Dragon Boat Festival

The Duanwu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

By 2,500 years ago, the Dragon Boat Festival had gradually become one of the traditional festivals held on May 5th of the Chinese lunar calendar every year.

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in the hometown of the poet Qu Yuan in Zigui County, Hubei Province are more detailed.

On December 14, 2007, the Chinese government declared the Dragon Boat Festival a national holiday.

It was an important symbolic event that also allowed ordinary Chinese to communicate with culture and the universe, and became an indispensable part of the Chinese folk calendar.