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When is the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year.

Dragon Boat Festival is an important traditional festival in China. There are three five days in a month: May15th and 25th, which means the beginning. The fifth day of each month can be called Dragon Boat Festival, and the fifth day of the lunar calendar is also called "noon month", so it is also called "Dragon Boat Festival". It is generally believed that this is the origin of the name "Dragon Boat Festival". The customs of different places and generations are different, which leads to many different names of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as Duanyang, Chongwu and Chongwu.

3. Dragon Boat Festival, originally founded by the ancestors of the south, is a festival to worship the ancestors of the dragon. 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 push.