What is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar

The Dragon Boat Festival (端午节), also known as Duan Yang Festival (端阳节), May Festival (五月节), and Five Days Festival (五日节), is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar 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 as one of the big folk festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena, evolved from the ancient times of sacrificing dragons. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven lodges soared in the center of the south, in the year's most "in the right" position, as the "I Ching - Qian Gua" fifth line: "Flying Dragon in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival is "flying dragon in the sky" auspicious day, the dragon and dragon boat culture has always been throughout the history of the Dragon Boat Festival heritage.

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 lunar month to kill himself, and the Dragon Boat Festival has been regarded by the later generations as a festival commemorating him; and there are other sayings commemorating Wu Zixu, Cao'e, and Jie Zi Tui, and so on.

Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

The arrangement of flowers and plants to ward off evil spirits on the Dragon Boat Festival has a long history. People inserted the mugwort and calamus as one of the important elements of the Dragon Boat Festival. Such as hanging moxa in the door, "Jing Chu chronicle": "picking moxa as a person, hanging on the portal, in order to avoid the poisonous gas." This is due to the important medicinal plants, and can make moxa velvet treatment, moxibustion points, and can drive away insects.

May Ai contains the most moxa oil, (at this time is the peak of the growth of Wen) so the best mosquito repellent, people are also scrambling to pick Ai. Often hang a few plants of mugwort in front of the house, due to the special flavor of mugwort, people use it to prevent mosquitoes, to ward off evil spirits.