Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar and is a layered early-summer festival. Dragon-boat racing, zongzi, aromatic plants, sachets and multicoloured cords vary by region, and no single legend explains every local tradition. Water, boats, plants, thread and wrapped forms provide useful design structures. This modern high-recognition palette combines dark green, mugwort green, vermilion, pale yellow and Moon White; the relationship is editorial and is not presented as a unified historical festival standard.

△ This palette is an editorial design interpretation built from source-aware color records. It is not presented as an official historical palette.

• Build direction with water lines and boat-like diagonals; use red and yellow as race markers rather than equal-area fills.
• For food packaging, distinguish plant, wrapping, and product information through three clear color roles.

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Open Access at The Met — Public-domain object images supplied under The Met Open Access policy (CC0).
• Hong Kong Observatory · Hong Kong Observatory Almanac 2026 — Hong Kong Government publication; factual citation only, no page-image reuse.
• Hong Kong Observatory · Hong Kong Observatory Almanac 2027 — Hong Kong Government publication; factual citation only, no page-image reuse.
• Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China · Opinions on using traditional festivals to carry forward outstanding national cultural traditions — PRC government web reference; factual citation and short quotation only.
• China Intangible Cultural Heritage Network / China Intangible Cultural Heritage Digital Museum · The contemporary meaning of Dragon Boat Festival customs — Institutional web reference; factual citation and short quotation only.
• UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage · Dragon Boat festival — Reference and short quotation only; page media rights remain with their credited owners.