The Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou is a comprehensive cultural venue built to commemorate Tang Xianzu, one of the world’s hundred great cultural figures and a master of Ming‑dynasty drama in China. It is also one of Jiangxi Province’s ten major memorial halls dedicated to historical luminaries.
Notice | Opening Schedule for the Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall in Fuzhou During the Dragon Boat Festival Holiday
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2025-05-29
This year’s Dragon Boat Festival
It coincides with Children’s Day,
🌿When the scent of mugwort meets colorful crayons,
Sticky rice balls meet cartoon stickers,
It turns out that tradition and childlike innocence can come together in such a charming way!
A total of 3 days off.
May 31 to June 2
Everyone, hurry and bring the kids!
Come to Fuzhou City. The Tang Xianzu Memorial Hall!
Dear visitors:
Our museum will be open as usual during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday. Visitors are welcome to visit. On Tuesday, June 3, the museum will be closed for maintenance following the holiday.
The 2025 Dragon Boat Festival holiday will run from Saturday, May 31, to Monday, June 2, for a total of three days.
Location: No. 1325 Wenchang Avenue, Fuzhou City (opposite Rui Shui Forest Park)
Friendly reminder: Hours of operation are 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (admission ends at 4:30 p.m.).
The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month each year. According to the “Jingchu Sui Shi Ji,” during midsummer, people climb high places to take advantage of the yang energy that rises upward; since the fifth month is midsummer, its first “wu” day happens to be an auspicious occasion for ascending heights and welcoming the yang. Thus, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is also known as the “Duanyang Festival.”
The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Double Fifth Festival, the Dragon Boat Race Festival, or the Tianzhong Festival, is one of China’s four major traditional festivals, alongside the Spring Festival, the Qingming Festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Duanwu culture has a broad global influence, and many other countries and regions also celebrate the festival. In May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of the National List of Intangible Cultural Heritage; since 2008, it has been designated a national statutory holiday. In September 2009, UNESCO officially inscribed it on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, making the Duanwu Festival the first Chinese festival to be recognized as a world intangible cultural heritage.
Eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation. According to historical records, the practice of eating zongzi originated in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods and gradually spread as people commemorated Qu Yuan, a high-ranking official of the State of Chu.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, every household cleans both their home and courtyard, hangs mugwort and calamus above the doorway—first to ward off mosquito and insect bites; second, to symbolize good health, good fortune, and blessings for the family; and third, to keep water spirits at bay and pray for a bountiful harvest.
Dragon boat racing is one of the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival and also one of its most important activities. It is widely practiced in southern China, and in northern regions near rivers and lakes, dragon boat racing is also observed—though it often takes the form of land‑based dragon‑boat races or dragon‑boat dances.
Driving away the “five poisons” is a traditional custom observed during the Dragon Boat Festival in certain regions of China. In ancient times, the people of northern China regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as an ominous and inauspicious day, and this belief has endured in folk culture, giving rise to various practices aimed at ensuring safety and warding off the five poisons. The ancients believed that during the midsummer period of the Dragon Boat Festival, the so‑called “five poisons”—centipedes, venomous snakes, scorpions, geckos, and toads—proliferate in great numbers, making them more likely to bite and injure people. Consequently, many of the festival’s customs are closely tied to the ritual of banishing these harmful creatures.
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