What festival is Dragon Boat Festival called?

According to statistics, there are more than 20 names of the Dragon Boat Festival, and the history of nearly a thousand years also makes the Dragon Boat Festival a festival with profound cultural connotations. But how much do you know about the other names of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as what festival is commonly known as the Dragon Boat Festival? What's the name of Dragon Boat Festival? Let's have a look.

Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, May Festival, Magnolia Festival, Daughter's Day, Zhengyang Festival and Tianzhong Festival. This is a traditional folk festival in China. Although the names are different, on the whole, the customs of people everywhere are more similar than different.

The origin of several names of Dragon Boat Festival;

Noon festival

Because the Dragon Boat Festival is just around the summer solstice, the direct point of the sun is on the tropic of cancer, and the position of the sun in the sky is the most one day in a year, hence the name. Tian Rucheng's Journey to the West Lake Volume 20 Ode to Joy in Ming Dynasty: "The reason why the Dragon Boat Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival is because the sun goes to Zhongtian at noon and reaches the highest point, and you run away at noon."

Mid-Autumn Festival

In ancient times, heavenly stems and earthly branches was the carrier, and the times were universal in heavenly stems and earthly branches. At first, the Dragon Boat Festival was the noon day of the calendar, with the first month as the first month, the fifth month as the noon month, and the noon day as the heavy noon. In the Han dynasty, due to the unification of the north and the south and the change of the calendar, the court decided to change the Dragon Boat Festival to the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year to facilitate the festival.

Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon boat race is the earliest form of offering sacrifices to dragon ancestors by ancient southern ancestors. It is very common for southern ancestors to use boats and boats. They often draw dragons on boats as their totems or protectors. Dragon boat rowing is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, so it is called the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is also very popular in the southern coastal areas of China.

Dangwu Xun

In some rural areas of Shanghai, near the north bank of Hangzhou Bay, such as Fengxian and Nanhui, it is customary to call the Dragon Boat Festival "five o'clock in the flood season". There are also some areas called "noon in May".

Dragon Boat Festival

Ancient ancestors held the Dragon Boat Festival on the Dragon Boat Festival, which was actually a "Dragon Boat Festival" at that time. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Long Zaitian, the black dragon's main spark (Antares) is high in the south, and the dragon god (Yang God) is vigorous. The "dragon" mentioned in the Book of Changes and the Divination is essentially an exposition of the operation of the black dragon at four o'clock a year for seven nights.

Yulan Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, which is a season with frequent skin diseases. At noon, plants and trees have the strongest medicinal properties in a year. The herbs collected on this day are the most effective in treating skin diseases and ward off evil spirits. The Dragon Boat Festival has the folk custom of collecting herbs and boiling water to take a bath, so it is called Bathing Orchid Festival. The Great Dai Li in the Han Dynasty said, "Wash blue soup in the afternoon".

Acorus calamus festival and wormwood festival

The ancients believed that Acorus calamus and wormwood had the function of ward off evil spirits, and the spirit of Dragon Boat Festival was vigorous, and wormwood and Acorus calamus flourished. Every year, people have the custom of hanging calamus or wormwood on their doors to ward off evil spirits, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Acorus calamus Festival" and "Ai Festival".

Hide in the afternoon

May was called "evil month" in the ancient north, so in some places, on the Dragon Boat Festival, parents would send their children under one year old to their grandmother's house to hide from evil spirits, so it was called "hiding in the afternoon".

Women's festival

"Miscellaneous Notes of Wan Series" is in Bangbang: "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival, Dai Ai Ye, and the five poison spells. Ten thousand customs are decorated with little girls from the first day of May to the fifth day of May, and we do our best. Married women also go back to their hometown because it is called Daughter's Day. "

When is the Dragon Boat Festival?

On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four traditional festivals in China. On May 20, 2006, it was included in the first batch of national cultural heritage list. On the day of Dragon Boat Festival, festivals will be held everywhere, such as rowing dragon boats, flying kites and hanging wormwood and calamus.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Noon Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Magnolia Festival and Tianzhong Festival, is a traditional folk festival in China. Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of astronomical phenomena and evolved from the ancient dragon totem sacrifice. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, when the black dragon rises to the south of the sky for seven nights, is the day of the dragonfly, that is to say, the fifth section of the Book of Changes is "the dragon is in the sky". At this time, Longxing is both "middle" and "middle", which is bound to win, and Enshi is also the aspiration of the people. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. The Dragon Boat Festival combines a variety of folk customs in its inheritance and development, and the festival customs are rich in content. Picking dragon boats and eating zongzi are the two major themes of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been handed down in China since ancient times and have never stopped.

Dragon Boat Festival, which originated in China, was originally a festival in which ancient ancestors offered sacrifices to their ancestors in the form of dragon boat races. Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by throwing himself into the Miluo River during the Dragon Boat Festival, which was later regarded as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some places, there are sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson tui. Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the dragon totem sacrifice, which injected the seasonal fashion of "getting rid of diseases and epidemic prevention" in summer, regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as a "bad month and bad day" from the north, and added commemorative contents such as Qu Yuan's suicide by jumping into the river, which finally formed the cultural connotation of today's Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional folk festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it. In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; Since 2008, it has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In September, 2009, UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the representative list of intangible cultural heritage of mankind, and the Dragon Boat Festival became the first festival in China to be selected as a world intangible heritage.