What month is the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, 20 17 is May 30th in the solar calendar.

2. Origin: Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. At first, it was a totem festival of tribes who worshipped dragon totem in Baiyue area (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the south area). Before the Spring and Autumn Period, Baiyue area had the custom of racing dragon boats on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Later, because Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu (now Hubei) in the Warring States period, threw a huge stone into the Miluo River that day, the ruler took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan in order to establish the label of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E are also commemorated. Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals of the Han nationality in China. Since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; In September 2009, UNESCO formally considered and approved the inclusion of China Dragon Boat Festival in the world intangible cultural heritage, making it the first festival in China to be selected as the world intangible cultural heritage.

Posthumous title: According to Jingchu Chunqiu, the fifth day of May is also called Duanyang Festival, because it is midsummer, and May is midsummer. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival" and so on.

4. Folk activities and customs: eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, closing continents, folding mugwort leaves, calamus, garlic, shooting willow, playing polo, picking herbs, magnolia soup, expelling five poisons, picking tea, curing herbal tea, shooting Dragon Boat Festival, etc.