The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Chinese folk festival, the Dragon Boat Festival. It is one of the ancient festivals of the Chinese. Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanwu and Duanyang. In addition, there are many nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: Noonday Festival, Chongwu Festival, May Festival, Yulan Festival, Daughter's Day, Tianzhong Festival, Di La, Poet Festival, Dragon Day and so on. Even though the names are different, overall, the similarities of the customs of the people everywhere are greater than the differences.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional habit of the Chinese people for more than 2,000 years. Due to the large area, many ethnic groups, and many stories and legends, many different festival names have been made, and there are also different customs in different places. The main contents are: daughters return to her mother's home, hang clock statues, welcome ghost ships, avoiding noon, hanging Tiewu leaf symbols, hanging calamus, wormwood, animal preparation, dragon boat racing, competition, batting balls , Swing on the swings, painting realgar for children, drink realgar wine, calamus wine, eat five poison cakes, salted eggs, dumplings and seasonal fresh fruit, etc. In addition to the superstitious activities gradually disappearing, the rest has spread throughout China and neighboring countries. Some activities, such as dragon boat racing, have gained development, traveling through time and land boundaries and becoming an international sport.

There are many references to the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: commemorating Qu Yuan's theory; commemorating Wu Zixu's theory; commemorating Cao E's theory; commemorating the Xia solstice festival of the three generations; the evil moon and evil day avoidance theory, the Wuyue national totem sacrifice theory and so on. All the above said, each has its origin. According to more than one hundred ancient records and expert archeological research in the categories of "Danwu Kao" and "Danwu History Education" by the scholar Wen Yiduo, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is the festival of the ancient totem worship of Wuyue people in ancient South China, which is earlier than Qu Yuan . However, for thousands of years, Qu Yuan’s patriotic spirit and touching poems have been widely accepted in the hearts of the people. Therefore, people "cherish and grieve, and pass on the words from the world". Therefore, in the field of folk culture, the Chinese people took the Dragon Boat

To this day, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular and grand festival among the Chinese people.