The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the traditional Chinese folk festival, the Dragon Boat Festival. It is one of the ancient traditional festivals of the Chinese nation. Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanwu and Duanyang. There are many opinions about the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as: commemorating Qu Yuan.

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The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is the totem festival held by the Wuyue people in southern China in ancient China, which was earlier than Qu Yuan. But for thousands of years, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poems have been widely popular. Therefore, commemorating Qu Yuan said that it has the widest and deepest influence and occupies the mainstream position. In the field of folk culture, Chinese people associate the dragon boat race and eating dumplings with the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.

Later, on the fifth day of May every year, there were customs of dragon boat racing, eating dumplings and drinking realgar wine; in this way, the patriotic poet Qu Yuan was commemorated.