The Dragon Boat Festival, one of China’s four major traditional festivals, falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and is a grand folk celebration that combines worship of deities and ancestors, prayers for good fortune and protection from evil, festive entertainment, and culinary traditions. As a festival, it took shape during the Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han period, Ying Shao’s “Folk Customs and Traditions” records that on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people observed practices to ward off military service and malevolent spirits, as well as to prevent illness and epidemics. In May 2006, the State Council included the Dragon Boat Festival in the first batch of the National Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Beginning in 2008, it was 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 Dragon Boat Festival the first Chinese festival to be recognized as a world intangible cultural heritage.

International Children’s Day, also known as “June 1st Children’s Day,” is observed annually on June 1. It was established by the International Democratic Federation of Women to safeguard the rights of children worldwide. In June 1942, during World War II, German fascists executed all male residents aged 16 and older in the Czech village of Lidice, then deported women and children to concentration camps, where 87 children perished in gas chambers. To commemorate the victims of Lidice and all children who lost their lives in fascist aggression, and to protect children’s rights to survival, health care, and education, the International Democratic Federation of Women convened a council meeting in Moscow in November 1949 and officially designated June 1 as International Children’s Day.

The Dragon Boat Festival holiday in 2025 will run from May 31 to June 2. Coinciding with Children’s Day, our museum has prepared a series of exciting events to celebrate these two important occasions. We warmly invite you to visit and join us!

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Time: May 18 to June 18

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Location: Yumingtang Veranda

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In March this year, the new Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Protection of Cultural Relics was officially promulgated and put into effect. The exhibition uses a combination of text and images to educate visitors about the classification, ownership, protection, and repatriation of cultural relics, with the aim of raising public awareness of cultural heritage preservation.

National Level-3 Museum

Chinese Qu Culture Education Base

Chinese Overseas International Culture Exchange Base

On-site Teaching Site of the Jinggangshan Cadre Academy of China

Jiangxi Province Patriotic Education Base

Jiangxi Provincial Base for Popularizing Social Sciences

Jiangxi Province Museum Demonstration Unit for Integrated Development

Jiangxi Province Primary and Secondary School Research-and-Practice Education Base