Which season is the Dragon Boat Festival in spring, summer, fall and winter?

The Dragon Boat Festival is in summer.

Duanwu Festival is a traditional festival in China, which is held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, and is also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Wuzhi Festival, the May Festival, the Wuzhi Festival, the Ai Festival, the Duanwu Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Wuzhi Festival, and the Summer Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a summer festival to dispel the plague, 278 BC the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, exiled on the banks of the Miluo River, heard that the Chu capital was captured, grief and indignation, sunk himself in the Miluo River. The people along the riverbanks rescued Qu Yuan in their boats and threw food into the river to prevent the fish and shrimp from hurting him. Since then, every year on this day, the local people hold related activities to express their nostalgia for him.

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The Dragon Boat Festival has a history of more than 2,500 years.

From the festival custom of driving away poison and evil spirits, a rich and colorful variety of rituals, entertainment, health care and other folk activities are derived from various places, including worshiping Qu Yuan, commemorating Wu Zixu, inserting Artemisia absinthium, hanging calamus, drinking xionghuang wine, eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, and getting rid of five poisons, etc. Various activities are slightly different depending on the region. Various activities vary slightly according to regional differences. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival with unique national spirit and rich cultural connotations, which has a significant impact on Chinese folk life.

The term "Dragon Boat Festival" originated from the ancient stem-branch system. In accordance with the stem and branch notation, *** counts five noon days: gengwu, nonwu, jiawu, cwu, wuwu. Each month consists of two noon days, the Dragon Boat Festival literally means the first noon day of May. However, the festival was first called the fifth day of the fifth month, and the earliest documented record of the term Dragon Boat Festival is Zhou Chu's "Record of Wind and Land" from the Jin Dynasty. Later, when the dry-branch method was replaced by the numerical method, the festival was set on the fifth day of the fifth month.

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