202 1 What festival is after Dragon Boat Festival? When is the next festival?

Introduction: Since the Dragon Boat Festival was listed as a national legal holiday in 2008, this festival, together with other legal holidays, has become a festival of great concern to the public. Now that the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching and the next holiday is about to start, everyone is starting to fidget. Let's first introduce what festival is after the Dragon Boat Festival on 202 1 and see when the next festival is.

202 1 Mid-Autumn Festival after the Dragon Boat Festival. The Mid-Autumn Festival holiday is arranged from September 19 to September 2 1 day, with a holiday of ***3 days. Go to work on Saturday in September 18. However, the festivals behind the Dragon Boat Festival are: July 1st, August 1st, Teachers' Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, National Day, Double Ninth Festival, New Year's Day, New Year's Eve, Spring Festival and Lantern Festival.

The origin of the Mid-Autumn festival

Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as Moon Festival, Moonlight Birthday, Moon Festival, Autumn Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Festival, Moon Festival and Reunion Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the worship of the autumn moon in ancient times. At first, the festival of "Sacrificing the Moon" was held on the "Autumn Equinox" of the twenty-four solar terms in the Ganzhi calendar, and later it was moved to August 15th in the summer calendar (lunar calendar). In some places, the Mid-Autumn Festival is set on August 16 in the summer calendar.

Since ancient times, Mid-Autumn Festival has had folk customs such as offering sacrifices to the moon, enjoying the moon, eating moon cakes, playing with lanterns, enjoying osmanthus and drinking osmanthus wine. It has been circulating for a long time. The Mid-Autumn Festival originated in ancient times, popularized in the Han Dynasty, shaped in the early Tang Dynasty and prevailed after the Song Dynasty. Mid-Autumn Festival is a synthesis of autumn seasonal customs, most of which have ancient origins. [5] The Mid-Autumn Festival is a colorful and precious cultural heritage. It is based on people's reunion with the full moon, with the hope of missing their hometown and relatives, and praying for a bumper harvest and happiness.

Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Dragon Boat Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Influenced by China culture, Mid-Autumn Festival is also a traditional festival for overseas Chinese in some countries in East and Southeast Asia, especially local Chinese. On May 20th, 2006, it was listed in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage by the State Council. Since 2008, Mid-Autumn Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

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 is the day of the dragonfly. As the fifth poem in The Book of Changes and the Melon says, "The dragon is in the sky". At noon, Long Xing is both a "win" and a "right" and a symbol of good luck. 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. Picking dragon boats and eating zongzi are two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

Dragon Boat Festival, originally founded by ancestors in the south, is a festival to worship the ancestors of dragons. 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 "Dragon Ascending to Heaven" as an auspicious day to worship the dragon ancestors, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" in summer. Dragon Boat Festival is considered as an "evil moon day", which originated in the northern part of the Central Plains to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures. The formation of the Dragon Boat Festival custom can be said to be the product of the integration of North and South customs.

The word "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the local chronicles of the Western Jin Dynasty: "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is also called May 5, which is the same as the summer solstice." Duan, which means beginning and beginning in ancient Chinese, is called "Dragon Boat Festival", that is, "the fifth day". Shuowen Jiezi: "Duan is also the subject of the birth of all things", which means that "Duan" means the beginning, so the fifth day of May is called "Dragon Boat Festival". "Guangji at the Age of Years" said: "The dust people in the capital take the first day of May as the first end, the second day as the second end, and the number is even five." The ancients used to call the first few days of May end to end. Therefore, the first afternoon in May is called Dragon Boat Festival.

The ancients took heavenly stems and earthly branches as the carrier, and the heavens and the earth supported the way of the earth, and set up heavenly stems and earthly branches to contract the fate of heaven and earth. Ancient people used heavenly stems and earthly branches to represent calendar year, calendar month, calendar day and calendar time. According to the calendar, according to the order of the twelve earthly branches, May is called "noon month" and noon day is called "heavy noon", so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang".

What's another name for the Dragon Boat Festival?

As a traditional festival with a long history, the word "Dragon Boat Festival" can be traced back to "Local Records" in Jin Dynasty and Zhou Dynasty, which records: "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, cooking millet". Because of its special date, that is, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it is also called May 5th, the fifth flood season, Mid-Autumn Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Magnolia Festival, Quyuan Festival, Noon Festival, Daughter's Day, Dila Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival, Lantern Festival and Five Eggs Festival. Are formed due to different regional cultures. You can pay attention to what the local name is.

Climatic characteristics of Dragon Boat Festival

This time is the middle of June in the Gregorian calendar and the beginning of May in the lunar calendar, which is long summer in the sense of climate. The maximum daily temperature is generally around 30 degrees, especially in the south, which is very hot and humid. Although the sunshine is not strong at this time, according to the climate law, many areas in China entered the rainy season around the Dragon Boat Festival. At this time, not only the temperature is high, the relative humidity of the air is high, but also the wind speed is low. Therefore, in the old society, people often hung wormwood at the door to prevent mosquitoes, ward off evil spirits and avoid drugs, and also wore sachets to ward off evil spirits and make it fragrant and turbid.