Dragon Boat Festival is an ancient traditional festival, which originated in China. At first, it was a totem festival of tribes who worshipped dragon totem in Baiyue area (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south area). Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Baiyue area, it was customary to hold totem festivals for tribes in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, because Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu (now Hubei) in the Warring States period, threw a huge stone into the Miluo River that day, the ruler took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan in order to establish the label of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E are also commemorated.

Dragon Boat Festival custom:

Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China. Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival has been a traditional habit of China people for more than two thousand years. Due to the vast territory, numerous nationalities and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names are produced, but also different customs exist in different places. Its contents mainly include: the daughter goes back to her parents' house, hangs a statue of Zhong Kui, greets the ghost boat, hides in the afternoon, sticks leaves in the afternoon, hangs calamus and wormwood, swims in all diseases, wears sachets, prepares sacrificial bowls, races dragon boats, flies kites, contests, hits the ball, swings, bathes children with bitter herbs, draws realgar, drinks realgar wine and calamus wine, and eats five poisonous cakes. Summer was originally the season to drive away the plague. From this day on, the indispensable epidemic prevention activities gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, wormwood and mugwort leaves, smoking Atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica, and drinking realgar wine. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Dragon Boat Festival has been circulated among the people for more than two thousand years. There are many theories about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. Although customs vary from place to place, making zongzi and rowing dragon boats is a common custom.