What's another name for the Dragon Boat Festival?

Other names of the Dragon Boat Festival are Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Zhongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Long Festival, Pujie Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Yulan Festival, Quyuan Festival, Noon Festival, Daughter's Day, Dila Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival, Lantern Festival and Five Eggs Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, and it is one of the four major festivals throughout the year. According to statistics, there are more than twenty names of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Another name is Linglong:

1, Duanyang Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanyang Festival. There are several sayings, one of which is because the ancients thought that five was a positive number, so it was also called Duanyang. There is another sentence in the Chronicle of Jingchu Years. According to records, it is midsummer because it is a mountain climbing in midsummer, the sun is in the sky, and the first afternoon is a fine day, so it is called "Duanyang Festival".

2. Bathing Orchid Festival

According to Liang Zongbian's Chronicle of Jingchu, "May 5th is called Lan Festival." Because the Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, it is a season with frequent skin diseases, so the ancients attached great importance to bathing on May 5th of the Dragon Boat Festival. The ancients would go to the mountains to pick orchids and go home to cook soup to wash their bodies. Others like to display orchids, Cao Qin, weeds, kaempferia kaempferia, Gan Song and so on. Put it in a small bag and put it on your chest to resist evil spirits and insects.

3. calamus festival

The ancients believed that May was a poisonous month and the fifth day was a poisonous day. The Dragon Boat Festival is full of five poisons, namely snakes, centipedes, scorpions, lizards and toads. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is mostly a custom of avoiding evil spirits and drugs, such as hanging calamus on the door, inserting wormwood and drinking realgar wine to ward off evil spirits and drive away drugs, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Acorus Festival".