When is the Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which is a traditional folk festival in China.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival and Tianzhong Festival. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is an auspicious day when dragons fly in the sky. Dragon and dragon boat culture have been running through the inheritance history of Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and later generations also regarded it as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push. The origin of Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and so on.

In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.

Folk activities:

There are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the contents or details of the customs are different due to different regions. The customs mainly include: picking dragon boats, eating zongzi, hanging wormwood and calamus, having dinner, bathing in the Dragon Boat Festival (soaking orchids), flying kites and swinging. In addition to these common customs, there are some unique customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in different regions, such as tying a hundred suozi and giving a fragrant fan.

There are also drying ginger, hanging kudzu vine, painting forehead, wearing sachet, wearing dragon tail, tying five-color thread, picking herbs to make tea, laying eggs, fighting, hitting the ball, hiding from the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing damselflies, posting a map of the five poisons, Youlong, boating, taking a nap, soaking in dragon boat water, worshiping the Nine Lions, releasing paper dragons, lighting moxa sticks, smoking Atractylodes rhizome and so on.

There are also customs of special festival foods in different regions, such as eating Huang Wu, wormwood cakes, mugwort, making cakes, frying piles, tea eggs, ruling cakes, drinking calamus wine and realgar wine, and drinking afternoon tea.

The above data are compiled from 360 encyclopedias.