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Dragon Boat Festival refers to what the lunar calendar

Duanwu Festival refers to the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

Duanwu Festival is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival, Wuzhi Festival, Ai Festival, Duanwu, Chongwu, Chongwu, Wuzhi, Summer Festival, Puzhi, was originally a summer festival to drive out the plague, and then Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu, threw himself into the river on the Dragon Boat Festival, and then it was turned into a festival commemorating the memory of Qu Yuan (said that it commemorates the anniversary of the death of Wu Zixu, the loyal minister of the State of Wu), and with the Spring Festival, the Mid-Autumn Festival, etc., belonging to the same It is an important traditional festival in the Greater China region of the East Asian Cultural Circle, as well as in Japan, North Korea, South Korea and Vietnam.