What month is the Dragon Boat Festival on each year?

Duanwu Festival is on a different date every year.

Duanwu Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Chongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., the date of the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a set of worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings to ward off evil spirits, celebrations and entertainment, and food and drink as one of the big folk festival. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the sacrifice of dragons in the ancient times. At the Dragon Boat Festival in mid-summer, the Dragon ascends to the center of the south, which is the most central position of the year.

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 month to kill himself, and the Dragon Boat Festival has been regarded by later generations as a festival to commemorate him; there are also sayings commemorating Wu Zixu and Jie Zi Tui, and so on. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains a profound and rich cultural connotation.

Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, eat zongzi: zongzi as a sacrificial offerings, as early as the Spring and Autumn period has appeared, but zongzi was formally designated as the Dragon Boat Festival food, is in the Jin Dynasty, this period, the package of zongzi in addition to the raw materials of glutinous rice, but also added the traditional Chinese medicine Yizhi Ren, cooked zongzi called Yizhi Zong.

2, tethered five-color thread: traditional Chinese culture, symbolizing the five sides of the five elements of the five colors green, red, white, black and yellow are considered auspicious colors. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, children should tie five-colored silk threads on their wrists and ankles to ensure their well-being.

3, drink xionghuang wine: Dragon Boat Festival drink xionghuang wine custom, ancient times in the Yangtze River Basin region is extremely prevalent. An old saying once said that drinking Xionghuang wine, illnesses and demons are far away.

4, dragon boat racing: dragon boat racing is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in China, is also one of the most important festivals of the Dragon Boat Festival folklore activities, in the southern region of China is widespread in the north of the city near the river and lake there are also customary dragon boat races, and most of them are paddling the form of dry dragon boat dance dragon boat.

Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Duanwu Festival for the above