The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Heavenly Fifth Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, is on the fifth day of the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is a folk festival that integrates worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of dragons in ancient times. At the Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer, the black dragon seven nights flew up in the center of the south, and was at the most "central" position throughout the year, just as the fifth line of the Book of Changes · Qiangua: "Flying dragon in the sky". The Dragon Boat Festival is the auspicious day of "flying dragons in the sky". The dragon and dragon boat culture have always run through the history of the Dragon Boat Festival.

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 the State of Chu in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May and killed himself. Later generations also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan; There are also statements in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs are mixed as a whole. There are differences in the content or details of customs due to different regional cultures.

The Dragon Boat Festival, together with the Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival, is known as the four traditional festivals in China. The Dragon Boat Festival culture 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 listed 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 its inclusion in the List of Representative Works of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage.