Names of Dragon Boat Festival in different places

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Heavy Noon Festival, Noon Festival and Summer Festival, which means "start" and "start". The fifth day can be called Dragon Boat Festival. In the lunar calendar, the earth supports the lunar calendar, the first month is cloudy, the second month is the base, and the afternoon begins in May. Therefore, May is called noon month, "five" is connected with "noon", and "five" is also a positive number. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is called May Festival, Ai Festival and Summer Festival in some places. According to historical records, the word "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the local custom of Jin people and Zhou Dynasty: "Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer, cooking millet." Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China. The basic activities of the Dragon Boat Festival gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus and mugwort leaves, smoking Atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica, and drinking realgar wine. It is said that eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is to commemorate Qu Yuan, so after liberation, the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day" to commemorate Qu Yuan. As for hanging Acorus calamus, Artemisia argyi, smoked Atractylodes macrocephala and Angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine is said to suppress evil spirits. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Heavy Noon Festival, Noon Festival and Summer Festival, which means "start" and "start". The fifth day can be called Dragon Boat Festival. In the lunar calendar, the earth supports the lunar calendar, the first month is cloudy, the second month is the base, and the afternoon begins in May. Therefore, May is called noon month, "five" is connected with "noon", and "five" is also a positive number. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is called May Festival, Ai Festival and Summer Festival in some places. According to historical records, the word "Dragon Boat Festival" first appeared in the local custom of Jin people and Zhou Dynasty: "Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer, cooking millet." Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of Han nationality in China. The basic activities of the Dragon Boat Festival gradually evolved into eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus and mugwort leaves, smoking Atractylodes rhizome and angelica dahurica, and drinking realgar wine. It is said that eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is to commemorate Qu Yuan, so after liberation, the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day" to commemorate Qu Yuan. As for hanging Acorus calamus, Artemisia argyi, smoked Atractylodes macrocephala and Angelica dahurica, drinking realgar wine is said to suppress evil spirits.

Today, the Dragon Boat Festival is still a very popular grand festival among the people of China. Since 2008, Dragon Boat Festival has been a national legal holiday. The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, this folk custom was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list. 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, Double Ninth Festival, Mid-Day Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Chang 'e Festival, Pujie Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Magnolia Festival, Zongzi Festival, Noon Festival, Daughter's Day, Dila Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival and Lantern Festival.

Duanyang Festival, as recorded in Jingchu Chunqiu, is called Duanyang Festival because it climbs mountains in midsummer. It is midsummer when the sun is in the sky, and its first afternoon is a fine day when the sun goes down.

Mid-Autumn Festival, at noon, belongs to twelve branches. 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.

As for the Zhongtian Festival, the ancients thought that on May 5th, the sun was more important than people, so it was called "Zhongtian Festival".

Bathing Orchid Festival, 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".

On the Brown Rice Festival, when the ancients ate brown rice 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 "Brown Rice Festival".

Daughter's Day, "Miscellaneous Notes" is listed by Ming and Shen: "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing mugwort leaves and 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 have their own motherhood. Because it's called Daughter's Day. "

On the calamus festival, the ancients thought that "heavy noon" was a taboo day, and at this time, the five poisons were exhausted. Therefore, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is to drive away poison, such as hanging calamus and mugwort leaves on the door, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Acorus Festival". [Hebei Province] It is forbidden to drill wells during the Dragon Boat Festival in Beiping, and it is often pre-pumped before the festival. It is said that it is to avoid well poisoning. On Dragon Boat Festival, street vendors also sell cherry mulberries. It is said that they eat cherry mulberries on the Dragon Boat Festival and don't eat flies by mistake all year round. "Five Poison Cakes", which are cakes decorated with five poisonous insect patterns, are sold in various food stores. Luanxian county lets men and women in-laws give gifts to each other on the Dragon Boat Festival. On the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhao County, the local government will hold a banquet in the south of the city, inviting the literati in the city to feast and compose poems, which is called "stepping on the willow".

[Shandong Province] On the Dragon Boat Festival in zouping county, everyone needs to drink a glass of wine early in the morning, which is said to ward off evil spirits. Rizhao Dragon Boat Festival wraps seven colors of thread around children, and it will take them until the first rain after the festival before they are untied and thrown into the rain. On the Dragon Boat Festival in Linqing County, boys under seven wear symbols (necklaces made of wheat barnyard grass), girls wear pomegranate flowers and yellow cloth shoes made by their mothers, and draw five kinds of poisonous insects on the vamps with a brush. It means killing five kinds of poisonous insects with Qu Yuan's ink. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, Jimo washes his face with dew.

[Shanxi Province] On the Dragon Boat Festival in Xiezhou, men and women wear mugwort leaves, which is called "getting rid of diseases", and children tie a hundred ropes around their necks. It is said that this is "tying dragons for Qu Yuan". During the Dragon Boat Festival in the Western Zhou Dynasty, villages would offer sacrifices to the Dragon King and hang paper in the fields. The Dragon Boat Festival in Huairen County is also called "Zhumen". The Dragon Boat Festival in Dingxiang County requires students to give gifts to their teachers. Lu 'an Mansion uses steamed dumplings made of wheat flour, called "white dumplings", and presents them to each other together with zongzi.

[Shaanxi Province] On the Dragon Boat Festival in Xing 'an League, local officials led their subordinates to watch the game, which was called "stepping on the stone". At the Dragon Boat Festival in Xingping County, a small corn is sewn with silk, and a small doll is sewn below it, which is called "playing with dolls". The Dragon Boat Festival in Tongguan County is called "town disease", and there are Pu Ai and paper cows sticking to the door.

[Gansu Province] Picking roses during the Dragon Boat Festival in Jingning area is mainly based on honey pickling. Zhenyuan county presented a fragrant fan, a Luo Qi, a towel handkerchief and a Ai Hu to the newlyweds during the Dragon Boat Festival. Children also invite their fathers and brothers to entertain their teachers, which is called "enjoying the festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhang Xi 'an County, the shepherd boy worships the mountain gods. Accumulated salary mountain, chicken calls before burning, commonly known as "burning mountain"

During the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiading County, Jiangsu Province, everyone, rich or poor, has to buy grouper (commonly known as mandarin fish) to cook. There is also a saying in Yizheng County, "When pants, buy yellow croaker". On the Dragon Boat Festival in Nanjing, families use a box of clear water, plus a little realgar and goose eye money. The whole family washes their eyes with this kind of water, which is called "breaking the eyes of fire". It is said that it can protect them from eye diseases for a year. There is a dragon boat show in Wujin at night. In the evening, small lanterns are hung around the dragon boat, and flutes and drums sing harmoniously.

The Dragon Boat Festival in Gaoyou is very special. There are customs such as tying a hundred scorpions, sticking five poisons, sticking symbols, emitting yellow smoke and eating "Twelve Red". Children hang "duck eggs", that is, choose beautiful duck eggs, put them in colored lines and hang them on their chests.

Shizhu [Sichuan Province] has the custom of going out during the Dragon Boat Festival. Four people use two bamboo poles to lift the wide table covered with red carpet. A Taoist priest riding a tiger weaves bamboo sticks on the carpet. Beating gongs and drums, marching in the street. In ancient times, there was a custom of "typing" on the Dragon Boat Festival in western Sichuan. On that day, Chengdu people bought plums and threw them in the southeast corner of the city, attracting tens of thousands of spectators. In the 21st year of Guangxu (1895), this custom stopped because of the sudden conflict between Touli and foreign missionaries. Leshan, Xinjin and other places also hold grand commodity fairs during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Students from rural schools in Tonglu County, Zhejiang Province brought a gift to their teachers during the Dragon Boat Festival, called "Remembrance". The doctor collects medicine at noon, and it is said that the doctor is in heaven that day.

Jianchangfu (Jiangxi Province) takes a bath with herbal water at noon to prevent scabies. Xinchang county drinks it with realgar cinnabar wine, which is called "eyes opening".

Bahe Town, Huanggang City, Hubei Province welcomes Nuo people, with a corolla tattoo and a golden bell to drive away the epidemic. Dragon boat race in Yichang county, especially on May 13, 14 and 15. May 15, also known as "Daduanyang", people eat zongzi and drink Pu wine, just like the Dragon Boat Festival. Qianjiang City will hold the Dragon Boat Festival Poetry Meeting, and Jingzhou City will hold the Dragon Boat Race.

[Hunan Province] On the Dragon Boat Festival in Youxian County, rich pregnant women eat flowers, poor people prepare chicken wine, and collect money with bamboo clips in front of the dragon boat faucet to pray for safe production. The government of Yuezhou regards this game as a disaster and a disease. Also known as "sending plague", when the grass boat comes to flood.

Fuzhou Dragon Boat Festival is an old custom. Daughter-in-law gives shroud, shoes and socks, zongzi and fans to her in-laws every day. In Jianyang County, 5th is the King Day of Sun-drying capsules, and people make sauces on this day. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Shanghang County, the boat was tied with reeds and a dragon-shaped play was performed at the water's edge, which was called dragon boat race. After the Dragon Boat Race in Xianyou County, paper was presented at Huxiao Beach to commemorate Qi Jiguang's drowning here during Jiajing period. Before Shao Wufu's Dragon Boat Festival, women used crimson yarn as a bag. Five-color velvet is the winning surface, and the colored thread is tied. The girl hung upside down on her back and was called "Dou Niang".

[Guangdong Province] After washing hands and eyes with boiling water at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival in Conghua County, it is called "sending disaster". During the Dragon Boat Festival in Xinxing County, people advocate welcoming and guiding idols' travel from neighboring temples. Wizards also use Dharma water and stickers to drive away evil spirits. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Shicheng County, children fly kites, which is called "disaster relief".

During the Dragon Boat Festival (Hainan Province), as in the Central Plains, dragon boat races and other activities are held all over Hainan. There are still two bright, slender and spirited dragon boats stacked on the two stone steps at the entrance of the 500-year-old Ming Chenghua ancient city in Ding 'an, the best-preserved ancient county. The ancestors of the island, during the Dragon Boat Festival, carried dragon boats on their shoulders and rushed to the river, sweating and racing in Nandu River ... The history has continued from an ancient Dragon Boat Festival to the present. Wenchang, known as the "hometown of coconuts", is the ancestral home of Soong Ching Ling, which is near the sea and the river. Since ancient times, local residents along the river have held dragon boat races every year on the Dragon Boat Festival to pray for peace. In addition to dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, hanging calamus and wormwood, there is another place in Hainan that is well known to the people on the island, that is, washing dragon water and taking herbal baths.

Taiwan Province Province is located in the subtropical zone. In the early days, many immigrants from the mainland could not adapt to the climate here, and people who died of plague often heard about it. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival, a festival with the basic spirit of expelling diseases and avoiding epidemics, is particularly important. There are Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Noon Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Long Festival, Pujie Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Magnolia Festival, Zongzi Festival, Noon Day, Daughter's Day, Dila Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Day and Lantern Festival.

Duanyang Festival, as recorded in Jingchu Chunqiu, is called Duanyang Festival because it climbs mountains in midsummer. It is midsummer when the sun is in the sky, and its first afternoon is a fine day when the sun goes down.

Mid-Autumn Festival, at noon, belongs to twelve branches. 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.

As for the Zhongtian Festival, the ancients thought that on May 5th, the sun was more important than people, so it was called "Zhongtian Festival".

Bathing Orchid Festival, 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".

On the Brown Rice Festival, when the ancients ate brown rice 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 "Brown Rice Festival".

Daughter's Day, "Miscellaneous Notes" is listed by Ming and Shen: "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival, wearing mugwort leaves and 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 have their own motherhood. Because it's called Daughter's Day. "

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