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What are the names of the Dragon Boat Festival

The name of Dragon Boat Festival is called more than twenty, such as Duanwu Festival, Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dangwu Flood, Tianzhong Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Calamus Festival, Puchong Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Qu Yuan Day, Noon Festival, Daughters' Festival, Ground Laxative Festival, Poets' Festival, Dragon Festival, Noon Festival, Lantern Festival, Five Eggs Festival, etc. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four major traditional festivals in China.

The Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, is one of China's four major traditional festivals and has a long history and culture. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally created by the ancestors of Wu-Yue in the south to worship the Dragon Ancestor.

Because of the legend 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 month to kill himself, people later also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. 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.

Expanded Information:

The Dragon Boat Festival, like the Spring Festival and other ancient traditional festivals, is a festival that combines prayers, entertainment and food. Like the Spring Festival and other ancient traditional festivals, the Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival that combines praying for blessings, eliminating calamities, celebrating entertainment, and eating, and is rich in folklore as it has been passed down and developed into a variety of folklore from various places. Duanwu customary activities centered around honoring the dragon and rewarding the dragon, praying for blessings and good fortune, suppressing evils and making disasters, etc., with colorful contents and lively celebrations.

Specific customary activities include: picking dragon boats, hanging mugwort and calamus, gathering luncheons, washing herbal water, releasing paper kites, swinging, sticking "noon time charms", tying a hundred rope, playing the water at noon, dipping the dragon boat water, releasing the paper dragons, dragon boat rice, watching the dragon boat, pointing moxa, fumigating Cangzhu;

giving incense fans, tanning ginger for a hundred days, hanging the yellow Kudzu vine, painting forehead, wear incense sachets, wear long-life wisp, tie five-color line, eating rice dumplings, picking medicines to make tea, standing eggs, wear Dou Niang, sticking the five poisons, swimming in the dry dragon, rowing the happy boat, nine lions to worship elephants, grabbing the green, Mala skating, hanging the statue of Zhong Kui, tasting flower feast and so on.

Festive food such as dumplings, five yellow, mugwort cake, mochi, cake, fried piles, tea eggs, five poisonous cakes, calamus wine, xionghuang wine, afternoon tea and so on.