How many Dragon Boat Festival will there be in 2020? Why are there two Dragon Boat Festival in 2020?

How many Dragon Boat Festival will there be in 2020? Why are there two Dragon Boat Festival in 2020?

There will be 1 Dragon Boat Festival in 2020. According to folklore, any festival has three elements: a fixed name, a fixed custom content and a fixed date. So there is only one Dragon Boat Festival every year, on the "noon day" of the first day of the fifth lunar month, so there is only one Dragon Boat Festival in 2020.

Even in the year of leap May, there is only one Dragon Boat Festival, because "leap May" is not the first May, and there is no such thing as two Dragon Boat Festivals.

When is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2020?

The Dragon Boat Festival in 2020 is on Thursday, June 25th, 2020, the fifth day of May in the Year of the Rat. Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China, also known as Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Poets' Festival and so on. Its origin comes from ancient astronomical worship and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. 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.

Why is the Dragon Boat Festival so late in 2020?

Because there will be an April leap in the lunar calendar in 2020.

The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. As a kind of lunar calendar, the number of days in a month depends on the monthly loss, and the time of a year is based on 12 months. In order to close the earth's orbit around the sun, that is, the tropic year, one month is added every two to three years, and the added month is a leap month. This year's lunar calendar is a leap April, so we have two April in the lunar calendar in 2020, and the Dragon Boat Festival follows two April, so we will think that the Dragon Boat Festival in 2020 will be later than in previous years.

Holiday arrangement for Dragon Boat Festival in 2020

According to the Notice of General Office of the State Council on Some Holiday Arrangements in 2020, the Dragon Boat Festival in 2020 will be closed from June 25th to 27th, with a holiday of ***3 days. Go to work on Sunday June 28th. Among them, the Dragon Boat Festival on June 25th is a legal holiday.

Various nicknames of Dragon Boat Festival

Duanyang Festival is one of the aliases of Dragon Boat Festival. Perhaps you don't know, the Dragon Boat Festival is the one with the most aliases among all the traditional festivals in China. Each name represents a unique understanding of the traditional Dragon Boat Festival.

According to statistics, the name of Dragon Boat Festival is called the most among all traditional festivals in China, reaching more than 20, which is the festival with the most aliases. For example, there are Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Long Festival, Pujie Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Magnolia Festival, Zongzi Festival and so on.

Duanyang Festival, as recorded in Jingchu Chunqiu, is called Duanyang Festival because it climbs mountains in midsummer. It is midsummer when the sun is in the sky, and its first afternoon is a fine day when the sun goes down.

Mid-Autumn Festival, at noon, belongs to twelve branches. In the lunar calendar, May is noon, and five and five are homophonic, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Double Five Festival, and in some places it is also called the May Festival.

As for the Zhongtian Festival, the ancients thought that on May 5th, the sun re-entered the sky, so it was called "Zhongtian Festival".

Bathing Orchid Festival, Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, which is a season with frequent skin diseases. The ancients bathed and decontaminated with Cao Lan soup. The Great Dai Li in the Han Dynasty said, "Wash blue soup in the afternoon".

Xiezong Festival, when the ancients ate brown on the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a competition to compare the length of each person's leaves, and the elders won, so it was also called Xiezong Festival.

Daughter's Day, "Miscellaneous Notes" is listed by Ming and Shen: "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing mugwort leaves and five poisonous symbols. From May 1st to May 5th, Su Wan played a little girl. She was very beautiful. Married women also have their own motherhood. Because it's called Daughter's Day. " Shen Bangwan's Miscellaneous Notes records: "From May 1st to 5th, the Yanjing family decorated their youngest daughter beautifully. Married women will also return to their homes in Liu Hua. This day is called Daughter's Day.

On the calamus festival, the ancients thought that "heavy noon" was a taboo day, and at this time, the five poisons were exhausted. Therefore, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to drive away poison, such as hanging calamus and mugwort leaves on the door, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Acorus Festival".