The college entrance examination in 2019 is on the Dragon Boat Festival

The college entrance examination in 2019 is on the Dragon Boat Festival.

June 7, 2019 is the Dragon Boat Festival.

The National College Entrance Examination, referred to as the "College Entrance Examination" for general higher education admissions.

It is a selective examination for qualified high school graduates or candidates with equivalent academic ability in the People's Republic of China (excluding Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Macao Special Administrative Region and Taiwan Province).

Ordinary colleges and universities will select the best students based on their scores, determined enrollment plans, and comprehensive evaluation of moral, intellectual, and physical qualities.

The college entrance examination is organized and scheduled by the Ministry of Education, and the examination questions are prescribed by the Ministry of Education Examination Center or the provincial education examination institutes that implement independent propositions.

The examination dates are June 7 and 8 every year. The names of the examination subjects in each province and city are the same as those of the national unified examination, and they must be consistent with the national unified examination time schedule.

Starting from January 1, 2015, the college entrance examination will gradually cancel 6 bonus points items such as sports specialties and Olympiads.

The 2019 National Unified Examination for General College Admissions was held from June 7 to 9, 2019, with 10.31 million applicants.

The Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of the fifth lunar month), also known as the Duanyang Festival, Dragon Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., is a traditional Chinese folk festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of celestial phenomena and evolved from the dragon totem sacrifice in ancient times.

During the Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer, the Canglong Qisu soared to the middle sky in the south, which is the day when the dragon flies to the sky. Just like the fifth line of the "Book of Changes Qian Gua" says: "The flying dragon is in the sky."

The dragon star of the Dragon Boat Festival is both "in the middle" and "in the right direction". It is in a position of great auspiciousness, and the blessings are universal, and the dragon's virtue is prominent.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrology culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations; in the inheritance and development, it has mixed a variety of folk customs into one, and the festival customs are rich in content.

Dragon Boat Festival and rice dumpling eating are the two major customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. These two customs have been passed down in China since ancient times and continue to this day.