What's The Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, Double Fifth Festival, and Tianzhong Festival, falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month each year. It is one of China's four major traditional festivals, and its name "Duanwu" signifies "upholding moderation and righteousness."

There are various theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, encompassing views such as the worship of natural phenomena, totem worship, and the commemoration of historical figures. The most widely circulated theory is that it commemorates Qu Yuan, a poet from the Warring States period. However, scholars generally believe that the "historical figure commemoration theory" is largely a later addition, and many Dragon Boat Festival customs predate Qu Yuan's time. The festival customs mainly include eating zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), dragon boat racing, hanging mugwort and calamus, wearing sachets, tying five-colored silk threads, and performing the Zhong Kui dance, all carrying cultural connotations of praying for blessings, warding off evil, and remembering ancestors. The Dragon Boat Festival was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists in 2006, became a national statutory holiday in 2008, and was inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2009, becoming China's first festival to be included in the world's intangible cultural heritage list. With the global reach of overseas Chinese, the Dragon Boat Festival and its core activities have spread to many countries and regions around the world. For example, in 2026, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, hosted dragon boat races as part of the "China-Brazil Cultural Year." As a national statutory holiday, the Dragon Boat Festival boosts tourism and consumption, creating a "festival economy." For instance, during the 2025 Dragon Boat Festival holiday, 119 million people traveled nationwide, directly driving consumption of 42.73 billion yuan. Its cultural connotations are continuously extended and reflected in poetry, calligraphy, painting, film and television, and modern cultural and creative products. Modern innovations combining the festival's symbolism with modern life have also emerged.

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