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English information about Dragon Boat Festival:

Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), also known as Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. ?

Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Yulan Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China.

Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of gods and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice.

Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice.

Dragon Boat Festival is a festival created by the ancestors of Baiyue in ancient times to worship their ancestors. According to legend, 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 took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, and there were also sayings to commemorate Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jiezitui.

Dragon Boat Festival is a festival founded by the ancestors of Baiyue in ancient times to worship their ancestors. 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 tui.

Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. ?

Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.

Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it.

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1, special diet

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in China. There are many shapes and varieties of zongzi, such as regular triangle, regular quadrangle, pointed triangle, square and strip. Due to the different flavors in different parts of China, there are mainly two kinds: sweet and salty.

The custom of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River valley. White wine or yellow wine brewed from ground realgar. Realgar can be used as an antidote and insecticide. Therefore, the ancients believed that realgar could inhibit snakes, scorpions and other pests. "Good can kill all poisons, eliminate all evils and cure all poisons. When a man turns his horse upside down, the tiger and the wolf crouch in the mountains, and all kinds of poisons enter the Sichuan water to avoid it. "

2. Foreign influence

The Japanese have had the tradition of China Festival since ancient times. In Japan, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival was introduced to Japan from China after heian period. Since the Meiji era, festivals have been changed to Gregorian calendar days. The Dragon Boat Festival in Japan is on May 5th in the solar calendar.

After the custom of Dragon Boat Festival spread to Japan, it was absorbed and transformed into traditional Japanese culture. Japanese people don't row dragon boats on this day, but they eat zongzi and hang calamus in front of the door like China people. 1948, the Dragon Boat Festival was officially designated as the legal children's day by the Japanese government and became one of the five major festivals in Japan.

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