When is the 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."

The Dragon Boat Festival is in summer, and the hot and humid weather causes frequent diseases. Traditionally, people bathe in bluegrass on the Dragon Boat Festival, which can drive away the coming diseases and plagues.

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According to statistics, the name of Dragon Boat Festival is called the most among all traditional festivals in China, reaching more than 20, which is the festival with the most aliases. For example, there are Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Long Festival, Pujie Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Magnolia Festival, Zongzi Festival and so on.

1. Duanyang Festival. According to the Chronicle of Jingchu, it is called midsummer because it climbs high and basks in the sun. Its first afternoon is a good day to climb high and bask in the sun, so it is called Duanyang Festival on the fifth day of May.

Second, Mid-Autumn Festival, at noon, belongs to 12 branch. In the lunar calendar, May is noon, and five and five are homophonic, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Double Five Festival, and in some places it is also called the May Festival.

Third, the Zhongtian Festival, the ancients thought that on May 5, the sun re-entered the sky, so it was called "Zhongtian Festival".

Fourth, the orchid bath festival, the Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, which is a season with frequent skin diseases. The ancients used orchid soup to bathe and decontaminate. The Great Dai Li in the Han Dynasty said, "Wash blue soup in the afternoon".

Fifth, the festival, when the ancients ate brown on the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a competition to compare the length of each person's leaves, and the elders won, so it was also called the festival.

Sixth, the daughter's day, the state's "10,000 Miscellaneous Notes": "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing five poisonous spells. From May 1st to May 5th, Su Wan played a little girl. She was very beautiful. Married women also have their own motherhood. Because it's called Daughter's Day. " Shen Bangwan's Miscellaneous Notes records: "From May 1st to 5th, the Yanjing family decorated their youngest daughter beautifully. Married women will also return to their homes in Liu Hua. This day is called Daughter's Day.

Seven, calamus festival, the ancients thought that "heavy noon" was a taboo day, at this time, the five poisons were exhausted, so the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival was mostly to drive away poisons, such as hanging calamus and mugwort leaves on the door, so the Dragon Boat Festival was also called "Acorus Festival".

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