Qu Yuan Temple in Zigui County, Hubei Province. [Photo/VCG]

In Zigui County, Hubei Province, the Dragon Boat Festival has long been seen as having equal importance to the Spring Festival. For more than 1,000 years, it is a tradition in Zigui that the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated three times, on the 5th, 15th and 25th day of the fifth lunar month.

Zigui is the hometown of Qu Yuan, a great Chinese poet and politician during the Warring States period (475–221 BCE) known for his patriotism and classic poems and verses, and each local custom of Dragon Boat Festival reflects local people's homage for him.