Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and the cultural circle of Chinese characters. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet in the state of Chu in the Warring States period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month. There are also commemorations of Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects of the content, contains profound and rich cultural connotation, in the inheritance and development of a variety of folk customs as a whole, due to different regional culture and there are differences in the content or details of customs. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional Chinese festivals, along with the Spring Festival, Tomb-sweeping Day and the Mid-Autumn Festival. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, some countries and regions in the world also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival activities. In May 2006, The State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage. Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first Chinese festival to be included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage. The following photos are from The Little Red Book.
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