202 1 When is the Dragon Boat Festival? 202 1 When is the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, 202 1 June1Monday, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

2. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally founded by the ancestors of southern wuyue, to worship the ancestors of dragons and pray for evil spirits. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5th and committed suicide. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push. Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "flying dragons in the sky" as an auspicious day to worship the dragon ancestors and pray for good luck to ward off evil spirits, and injected the "epidemic prevention fashion" into the summer season; The Dragon Boat Festival, regarded as "bad month and bad day", began in the northern part of the Central Plains and was attached to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures.