How many days will there be during the Dragon Boat Festival holiday in 2023?

In 2023, the Dragon Boat Festival will be closed for 3 days.

The Dragon Boat Festival holiday in 2023 is from June 22nd to 24th, lasting for 3 days. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. On the midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the black dragon spent seven nights in the sky, which was the day when the dragon flew, as the fifth poem "Gan Gua" in the Book of Changes said: "The dragon is in the sky".

At noon, Long Xing is both "victory" and "right", which is a symbol of good luck. The origin of Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, a variety of folk customs have been integrated, and the content of festival customs is rich. Dragon boat racing and eating zongzi are two major customs of Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

Folk customs of Dragon Boat Festival

1, Dragon Boat Race

The word "dragon boat" first appeared in Volume V of Mu Zhuan: "The son of heaven rides a bird boat, and the dragon boat floats in the marsh." Before "Nine Songs to Xiang Jun", I said: "Today, I will fly the dragon to the north and go straight to Dongting" and "The stone wrasse is shallow and the dragon is elegant". The "dragon" in the article is the dragon boat. The prehistoric culture of Hemudu site and Tianluoshan site shows that canoes and wooden paddles existed as early as 5,000 to 7,000 years ago. The original prototype of the dragon boat was carved into a dragon-shaped canoe on a wooden boat, and later it developed into a dragon boat made of wooden boards.

2. Hang wormwood and calamus

On the Dragon Boat Festival, all kinds of flowers and plants that can drive away evil spirits and diseases have been arranged for a long time. At the earliest, it was like hanging wormwood on the door. "When Jingchu was old, moxibustion could also repel insects." In May, Artemisia argyi leaves contain the most oil (at this time, it is in the peak period of warm growth), and people are scrambling to pick Artemisia argyi leaves.