Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, 

Tianzhong Festival, etc., is a folk festival that integrates worshiping gods and ancestors, praying 

for blessings and warding off evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in 

the cultural circle of Chinese characters. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State during the 

Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping on the Miluo River on the fifth day of the 

fifth lunar month. Later generations also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to 

commemorate Qu Yuan; Cao E and Jie Zitui, etc. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers 

ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and 

rich cultural connotations. In the inheritance and development, it is mixed with a variety of folk 

customs. Due to different regional cultures, there are customs and details in different places. 

difference.

The Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival 

are known as the four traditional festivals in China. The Dragon Boat Festival has a wide influence 

in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon 

Boat Festival. In May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible 

cultural heritage list; since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September 

2009, UNESCO officially approved it to be included in the "Representative List of Intangible Cultural 

Heritage of Humanity", and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be included

 in the world's intangible cultural heritage.

AMIKON LIMITED, reliable supplier who focus on PLC&DCS.

CONTACT:

***Email:sales7@amikon.cn***

***Tel/whatsapp:+86-18020714492***

***Skype:sales7@amikon.cn***