Duanwu Festival holiday expected to see over 650 million passenger trips across China

China is expected to see over 650 million cross-regional visitor trips throughout the three-day Dragon Boat Festival, with an average of 217.6 million trips per day, official data showed on Sunday.

The total railway passenger volume is expected to reach 49.45 million trips, with an average of about 16.5 million trips per day, marking a 2.97 percent year-on-year increase.

The total road passenger volume is expected to reach about 594.9 million trips, with an average of over 198 million trips per day.

The total waterway passenger volume is expected to reach 2.76 million trips, with an average of 921,000 trips per day, a 1.16 percent year-on-year decrease.

The total civil aviation passenger volume is expected to reach about 5.68 million trips, with an average of 1.89 million trips per day, marking a 0.60 percent year-on-year increase.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. This year, the festival fell on June 19, with the three-day holiday running through June 21.

Ceremonies worshiping Fuxi, a mythical ancestor of the Chinese nation, took place simultaneously in the city of Tianshui, northwest China's Gansu Province and in the New Taipei City of China's Taiwan region on Sunday.

It's the 13th consecutive year that people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait have paid tribute to Fuxi.

Fuxi is widely seen as a key ancestral figure of the entire Chinese nation, and ceremonies honoring him carry on a shared cultural memory, spiritual heritage, and emotional identity.

The annual commemoration of Fuxi has a history of more than 2,000 years. It was listed as a form of national intangible cultural heritage in 2006.