Duanyang Festival According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, the first afternoon was a fine day because of climbing mountains in midsummer and the sun was in the sky, so it was called Duanyang Festival on the fifth day of May.
On May 5, it was Duanyang, and the door was full of incense. In 2009, Dragon Boat Festival became the first traditional festival in China to be included in the world intangible cultural heritage list.
For thousands of years, the Dragon Boat Festival with a long history has been a folk festival for all people in China to avoid plague and exorcise evil spirits and pray for health and longevity. The customs are rich and colorful, including dumplings, dragon boat races, hanging calamus and wormwood, making sachets, medicated baths and drinking medicinal liquor.