How many names are there for Dragon Boat Festival?

The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Zhongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Yulan Festival, Jiezong Festival, Acorus calamus Festival and Daughter's Day.

1, Duanyang Festival, according to the Chronicle of Jingchu, it is called "Duanyang Festival" because it is midsummer when the sun is on the mountain, and it is midsummer in May, and its first afternoon is a fine day.

2. Mid-Autumn Festival, at noon, belongs to 12 branch. The fifth month of the lunar calendar is noon, and five and five are homophonic, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Double Fifth Festival, and in some places it is also called the May Festival.

3. afternoon sacrifice. The ancients believed that on May 5th, the sun re-entered the sky, so it was called "Zhongtian Festival".

4, Bathing Orchid Festival, Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, which is a season with frequent skin diseases. The ancients bathed and decontaminated with Cao Lan soup. The Great Dai Li in the Han Dynasty said, "Wash blue soup in the afternoon".

5. Festival, when the ancients ate brown on the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a competition to compare the length of each person's leaves, and the elders won, so it was also called "Festival".

6. calamus festival. The ancients thought that "heavy noon" was a taboo day. At this time, the five poisons have been exhausted. Therefore, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to drive away poison, such as hanging calamus and mugwort leaves on the door, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Acorus Festival".

7. Daughter's Day, recorded in Shenbang's "Wan Bu Miscellaneous Notes" in the Ming Dynasty: "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing and five poisonous spells. From May 1st to May 5th, Su Wan played a little girl. She was very beautiful. Married women also have their own motherhood. Because it's called Daughter's Day. "

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Customs of Dragon Boat Festival in various places:

1, Jiangsu

In addition to rowing dragon boats, Jiangsu Dragon Boat Festival customs mainly include zongzi, realgar wine, Huangwu banquet, etc. The festival is decorated with five poison pictures, Acorus calamus leaves, Zhong Kui statues, colorful arms, silk zongzi, five poison clothes, tiger's head shoes and sachets. There is a dragon boat show in Wujin at night. In the evening, small lanterns are hung around the dragon boat, and flutes and drums sing harmoniously.

2. Zhejiang

Dragon Boat Festival is a special festival with a long history, rich content and diverse cultural customs. Generally speaking, ancestor worship, dragon boat race, eating zongzi, offering sacrifices to dragon heads, lighting dzi beads, wearing red flowers, hanging calamus leaves, tying colored silk, drinking realgar wine, eating Huang Wu, wearing sachets and collecting herbs are common customs, but the contents or details of customs vary from place to place.

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