The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as Duanyang Festival, Midday Festival, May Festival, Xiawu Festival, Chongwu Festival, etc. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival for the Han people in China to commemorate Qu Yuan. It revolves around Qu Yuan, a talented and independent doctor of the Chu State. It spreads to all parts of China and shares folk culture. Qu Yuan's famous people are well known and cherish the noble feelings of the Chinese nation. The Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of eating rice dumplings, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, wormwood, mugwort, Kaoru atractylodes, angelica, and drinking realgar wine. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of the national statutory holidays and is included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

There are many paintings and calligraphy works on the theme of the Dragon Boat Festival in history. The Yuan Dynasty painter Wu Tinghui's "Dragon Boat Wins the Bid", the Song Dynasty's "Jin Ming Competition for the Bid", "Dragon Boat Picture", and the Qing Dynasty "Duanyang Story Book", etc., all describe the Dragon Boat Festival. The folk custom of people racing dragon boats.

国画端午|名家画中的端午

齐白石《五日吉祥》 1943年作

Qi Baishi painted the seasonal paintings of the Dragon Boat Festival. In the paintings, we can see that the "Five-Day Festival" family hangs calamus argyi to ward off evil spirits. The leaves of mugwort are biased to the right side, and the calamus on the left is also called Pujian. There are several strokes in the painting, written in cyan and thick ink to hook the stem, without losing the "sword spirit". A few simple strokes will subtly show the angular turns of the brown child, and the thick ink dry pen writes the brown rope, which is accompanied by a simple-shaped wine jug and wine glass.

张大千《端午习俗》

Zhang Daqian's "Dragon Boat Festival Customs" was written in 1979, and the inscription on it reads: Realgar Garlic is a thousand-year-old custom, and hairpin and Ai are hanging on Puwan households. There is only an old man sitting on his belly, and it has been difficult to draw talismans to scare ghosts. In ancient times, the red talisman was painted at noon and day, but I have never seen it again. In the sixty-eighth year of the afternoon opera, the eighty-one old man.