Which of the following is another name for May of the lunar calendar?

According to China folklore, the fifth month of the lunar calendar is a poisonous month. Dragon Boat Festival is the first of the nine poisons, so there are many rituals to ward off evil spirits and drive away poisons in China folk customs, such as drinking realgar wine and inserting wormwood.

Judging from the 24 solar terms, the fifth month of the lunar calendar has reached midsummer, so it is called "midsummer" and "midsummer". The most important festival is the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May.

Akira

It is recorded in the Book of Songs that cicadas sing in May, and cicadas are cicadas. It means that cicadas broke ground and climbed trees in May, and started the first voiceless song in summer, so May was nicknamed "Mingqu".

Five Sacred Mountains

In ancient China, people also matched twelve months with twelve earthly branches, and May was also called "noon month".

Duanyang and Duanyue

On the fifth day of May, it is the "heavy noon" and the Dragon Boat Festival, one of the traditional festivals in China, so May is also called "Duanyang" and "Duanyue".

Bad Moon and Depressed Steam

According to China folklore, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Yin and Yang compete and Yin wins. Evil spirits, ghosts, all kinds of poisons (so it is also called "poisonous month") and plagues will gradually become rampant with the arrival of the summer heat, so May is also called "evil month", and various methods should be used to avoid evil spirits. In fact, people in ancient China called it a "bad month" because the climate in May was warm and rainy, and sometimes it was warm and cold at first, so people in ancient China also called May "cloudy steaming", which means low air pressure, high humidity and high temperature.

The fifth month of the lunar calendar

In May, a hundred herbs are flourishing. In A Dream of Red Mansions, "a hundred flowers fight for beauty" is a folk activity of a hundred flowers fight for beauty. In May, the lush herb is Acorus calamus. Acorus calamus, as one of the "four elegant flowers", grows on the riverside, is slim, green and fragrant, and is deeply loved by people. Drinking calamus wine and inserting calamus leaves has also become an important custom of exorcism on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. People also call May "Puyue".

Liu Yue

Named after the pomegranate flowers in May, Han Yu wrote a poem "The pomegranate flowers in May are gorgeous". In the early May of ancient times, little girls in Beijing wore orange or scarlet pomegranate flowers as hairpins and dressed themselves beautifully. Later, they called the fifth day of the fifth lunar month "Daughter's Day".

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