Dragon Boat Festival holiday arrangement in 2023

The timetable for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday in 2023 is as follows:

The Dragon Boat Festival in 2023 will be closed for 3 days from June 22nd to 24th. 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. Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the 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 are integrated, and festival customs are rich in content. 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.

Traditional folk customs of Dragon Boat Festival;

Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular folk festival in China. Celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional habit of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Due to the vast territory, numerous nationalities and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names are produced, but also different customs exist in different places. As early as ancient times, Baiyue had the custom of offering sacrifices to dragon ancestors in the form of dragon boat races on the afternoon of March.

Today, dragon boat racing is still an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival. In ancient times, there were different customs in the north and the south. When the Vietnamese in the south hold dragon totem sacrifices on auspicious days, the Central Plains in the north avoid the Dragon Boat Festival as a bad month and day. With the development of history, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival has injected the fashion of seasonal exorcism and disease prevention in summer.