Fifth lunar month, is a traditional Chinese folk festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, also called duanyang, the Dragon Boat Festival, day of the day, big day, moreline festival, sections. It is one of the han nationality traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival is also called terminal five, duanyang. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival and many nickname, such as: the midday, weighs five, may festival, bath festival, dolls, days of the holiday, to wax, poets section, dragon day, ai, terminal five, summer, and so on. Although the name is different, but in general, around the custom of the peoples holiday or the same than different. Today, Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular among the Chinese peoples grand festival.
The Dragon Boat Festival, is Chinese two thousand years of tradition, because the region vast, many nationalities, part of the Mongol, hui, Tibetan, miao, yi, zhuang,, north Korea, dong, yao, bai, tujia, hani, she, lexical, water, naxi, daur, MuLao, qiang, GeLao, xibo, meters, the ewenki nationality, the abundant solid, such as oroqen ethnic minority also in this section, with many stories, so not only produced many different section name, and also h**e different customs. Its content mainly has: the daughter back, hanging doors, like to meet a ghost ship, noon, afternoon Ye Fu, hanging calamus and wormwood, swam out, her sweet bursa, for he feels ashamed, dragon boat racing, duration, the shots, swing, for children with realgar, drinking realgar wine, sweet wine, bread eaten ruling, salted egg, zongzi and seasonal fruit, etc., in addition to the superstition color activities gradually disappeared, the rest has spread all over China and neighboring countries. Some activities, such as dragon boat racing, has been a new development, broke through the time and geographical boundaries, become an international sporting event.