When is the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, the so-called "Dragon Boat Festival" is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year.

2. "Dragon Boat Festival", also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Magnolia Festival, etc. "Dragon Boat Festival" is a traditional cultural festival of China people and the country in the Chinese character cultural circle! Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival to drive away plague and dragon boat festival in summer. Later, people took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, and there were also sayings to commemorate Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jiezitui. There are folk customs such as picking dragon boats, "eating zongzi", flying kites and "hanging wormwood and calamus".

Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan. Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival for the Han people in China to commemorate Qu Yuan. It spread to all parts of China around Qu Yuan, an outstanding and independent doctor of Chu. Folk culture never tires of it, and Qu Yuan's celebrity is well known, bearing the noble feelings of the Chinese nation. On the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs of eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus, wormwood, wormwood leaves, smoked atractylodes rhizome, angelica dahurica and drinking realgar wine. Since 2008, "Dragon Boat Festival" has been one of the national legal holidays and has been included in the world intangible cultural heritage list.