Why is the fifth day of May called Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the most important traditional folk festival in summer in China. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival and many festival activities are related to summer and are adjacent to the summer solstice, so it is called the summer festival. The local custom of the Jin Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty said: "The midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is also called May 5, which is the same as the summer solstice."

Literally, the Dragon Boat Festival also has names such as "Dragon Boat Festival", "Chongwu" and "Chongwu". Duan, in ancient Chinese, there is a meaning of beginning and beginning. Calling it "Dragon Boat Festival" is just like calling it "the fifth day". The ancients used to call the first few days of May end to end. In the Yuan Dynasty, Chen's Record of Years Old said: "City dust people take the first day of May as the beginning and end, the second day as the beginning and end, and even five as the beginning and end."

According to the time sequence of heavenly stems and earthly branches, the ancients calculated that May was "noon month" and noon was "sunshine day", so the Dragon Boat Festival was also called "Duanyang". In the afternoon, the ancients and the "Five" are common, so the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival are synonymous. There is also a saying that because Emperor Taizong's birthday is on the fifth day of August, it was changed from five o'clock to noon in order to avoid taboo. Since then, the name of the Dragon Boat Festival has become more common. Because the number of months is the same as the number of days, people also call the Dragon Boat Festival "Double Five Festival" or "Double Noon Festival".

There is also a saying that because Emperor Taizong's birthday is on the fifth day of August, it was changed from five o'clock to noon in order to avoid taboo. Since then, the name of the Dragon Boat Festival has become more common. Because the number of months is the same as the number of days, people also call the Dragon Boat Festival "Double Five Festival" or "Double Noon Festival".

The origin of Dragon Boat Festival:

One said that the Dragon Boat Festival is a dragon festival. According to the Dragon Boat Festival written by Mr. Wen Yiduo, the Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival of totem sacrifice in ancient wuyue, and it is actually a Dragon Boat Festival.

The second theory holds that the Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of Chu State. According to Qi Xuheng, Qu Yuan died in the Miluo River on the fifth day of May, and the Chu people mourned. On this day, he threw rice in a bamboo tube and sacrificed it to the river.

According to the Book of Rites, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the orchid bath in the Zhou Dynasty.

According to Cai Yong's Cao Qin in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Dragon Boat Festival is a festival to commemorate the sages.

According to five theories, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Spring and Autumn Period when Gou Jian, the king of Yue, practiced the water army every day.