The Dragon Boat Festival is also called Dragon Boat Festival.

1, Dragon Boat Festival literally has other names such as Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu and Chongwu. "Duan" has the meaning of beginning and ending in ancient Chinese, and calling "Duan Wu" is just like calling "the fifth day". "Local Customs" said: "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival. End, start. " There are three five days in a month, and the first five days are the Dragon Boat Festival. The ancients used to call the first few days of May end to end respectively. In Yuan Dynasty, Chen's Chronicle of Years Old says: "City dust people take the first day of May as the beginning and end, the second day as the beginning and end, and the even number five as the beginning and end."

There are several names for Dragon Boat Festival.

(1) Dragon Boat Festival means "the beginning", so "Dragon Boat Festival" means "the fifth day". According to the calendar, May is the noon month, so the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually evolved into the Dragon Boat Festival. The Chronicle of Yanjing Years Old records: "The fifth day is the fifth day of May, and the transliteration of the word' Duan' is also stamped."

(2) Duanyang Festival According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, it is midsummer, May is midsummer, and its early afternoon is a good day to climb high in the sun, so it is called Duanyang Festival on the fifth day of May.

(3) The Mid-Autumn Festival belongs to the twelve earthly branches, and the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in some places it is also called the May Festival.

(4) In the fifth flood season, in some rural areas of Shanghai and near the north bank of Hangzhou Bay, such as Fengxian and Nanhui, it is customary to call the Dragon Boat Festival "noon flood season".

(5) The name of "Zhongtian Festival" comes from the number of yin and yang techniques. Tian Rucheng's Travel Notes on the West Lake, a volume of Yue in the 20th Ming Dynasty, said: "The Dragon Boat Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and it is called the Mid-Autumn Festival because the sun reaches its highest point from noon to mid-autumn." Japan designated May 5th as "Boys' Day", which may also be based on the Japan-China Festival, because Japan believes that only men inherit the universal spirit.

(6) The 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".

(7) Festival Festival When the ancients ate zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a game that was shorter than each person's leaves, and the elderly won, so it was also called Festival Festival.

(8) Daughter's Day Shen Mingbang's Miscellaneous Notes: "May Daughter's Day, Dragon Boat Festival, wearing mugwort leaves, five poisonous symbols. Ten thousand customs are decorated with little girls from the first day of May to the fifth day of May, and we do our best. Married women also go back to their hometown because it is called Daughter's Day. "

(9) End etiquette is the baptism of hanging mugwort leaves on the door and bathing with mugwort leaves to repel mosquitoes on the fifth day of May in summer. It is believed that malaria can be driven away after baptism, and this mosquito breeding summer can be safely spent.

(10) Dragon Boat Festival is not only an ancient totem festival, but also an epidemic prevention festival. The ancients thought that "heavy noon" was a taboo day, when the five poisons were exhausted. Therefore, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to ward off evil spirits and avoid poison, such as hanging calamus and mugwort leaves on the door, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Acorus Festival".