What is the date of the Dragon Boat Festival?

Duanwu Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. Legend has it that Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu during the Warring States period, jumped into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to kill himself, and the Dragon Boat Festival has been regarded by later generations as a memorial to him, as well as a memorial to Wu Zixu, Cao'e, and Jie Zi Tui, among other sayings.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, containing a profound and rich cultural connotation, in the development of inheritance of a variety of folklore as one, due to the different regional cultures and the existence of customary content or details of the differences.

The Dragon Boat Festival is known as one of the four major traditional festivals in China, along with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The culture of Dragon Boat Festival has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

Inheritance and development:

The Dragon Boat Festival was initially held in the ancient Baiyue region (south of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River) for the worship of the dragon totem tribes to hold the festival of totem sacrifices, the Baiyue land in the Spring and Autumn period before the Dragon Boat Festival in the form of a dragon boat race held in the tribal totem sacrifices custom. According to the Hemudu ruins and other prehistoric culture shows that as early as seven thousand years or more ago, there is a canoe and paddle used in the race.

According to evidence, a prerequisite for dragon boat racing must be in a rice-producing area with many river ports, which is characteristic of southern China. A large number of recent excavations and archaeological studies show that: as early as the ancient times, the Baiyue ancestors have created a brilliant high civilization, the ancient ancestors to "dragon" as a totem, at that time the Dragon Boat Festival is in fact a festival to worship the dragon ancestor.

The Han Dynasty was the first period of great development after the unification of China, and the economic and cultural exchanges between the north and the south led to the fusion of customs and habits. Ancient chronology, chronology of the month, the day, the time universal trunk and the earth's branches, noon, noon day, "in the right" also. Han Dynasty, the unification of the north and south, the calendar changes, the court in order to facilitate the festival, the annual Dragon Boat Festival was changed to the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.