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When is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2020? Who is the Dragon Boat Festival to commemorate?

1.2020 Dragon Boat Festival Date: Thursday, June 25th, 2020.

2. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Zhengyang 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 Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival, originally founded by the ancestors of southern wuyue, is a festival to worship the ancestors of dragons. According to legend, Qu Yuan, a Chu poet in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River on May 5th. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.