When is the Dragon Boat Festival in the lunar calendar?

The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Zhongyuan Festival and Tianzhong Festival. Every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of natural phenomena and evolved from the ancient Dragon Boat Festival. 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 Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping on the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and later generations also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers the ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations. In the process of inheritance and development, it combines a variety of folk customs.

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, with five-color silk thread system: In the traditional culture of China, the five colors "green, red, white, black and yellow" symbolizing the five elements are regarded as auspicious colors. It was once a popular holiday custom to tie one's arm with colored silk thread during the Dragon Boat Festival. Passed on to future generations, it developed into many beautiful decorations, such as longevity wisps, longevity locks, sachets and so on. Its production has become increasingly exquisite and has become a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.

2. midday water: midday water, that is, the water that is hit in the well at noon at the end of the day. Drinking water at noon on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom prevailing in the southern coastal areas. At noon, the sun rises above the sun, so "midday water" is called "extremely sunny water", "Long Mu water" and "zhengyang water". The ancients regarded noon water as good luck water, and the sunshine was the most abundant at noon that day.

3. Eating Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival: The main ingredients are glutinous rice and stuffing, wrapped in bamboo leaves, with various shapes, such as sharp corners and quadrangles. Zongzi has a long history, originally as a tribute to ancestors and gods. After being introduced to the north, it is made of millet (produced in the north), which is called "corn millet". Because of the different eating habits in different places, zongzi has formed a north-south flavor; In terms of taste, zongzi can be divided into salty zongzi and sweet zongzi.

The above contents refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Boat Festival