《 Dragon Boat Festival》

     The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, also known as Duanyang Festival。Double Festival, May Festival, day festival, bath orchid Festival, Pu Festival, daughter's Day, etc., the festival is in the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. From the formation of the pre-Qin and Han Dynasties, the establishment of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the prosperity of the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the popularization of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has a history of more than 2,500 years, and has been widely spread in the majority of Han areas, Miao, Buyi, Manchu and other ethnic minorities in the unique characteristics of the Dragon Boat Festival.

It was added to the World Intangible Cultural Heritage list in 2009

      The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, comes from the summer According to the theory of Yin and Yang, the summer solstice is the transition point when Yang is at its peak and Yin is back up, and it has the meaning of saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new. However, the date of the lunar calendar is not fixed, and the folk convert it to the Duanyang Festival, which is fixed on May 15. There has been a trend of confluence since the Wei, ​in Changyang, Hubei Province, the fifth day of May  Many places north and south of the Yangtze River also have the customs of the first two, most of China celebrates the fifth day of May, so it is not surprising that it is called"May Festival"

    


      The time of the Dragon Boat Festival is noon, and the sun is in the middle of the day. The study of Huangshi believes that the afternoon is out of fire on the eight diagrams, the power of the sunreaches the peak, and the Yang reaches the pole, so it is also called the day festival. The Dragon BoatFestival is sometimes called Pu Festival, women's Day, bath LAN Festival and so on. Wu Zimu "Dream Liang Lu" said: "Five days double five festivals, and the day bathing blue Ling festival", because in ancient times there is a day on this day blue grass water bathing customs. May is also called Pu month,and the end of the fifth is called Pu Festival, which is because the May calamus is mature, and the end of the fifth has the custom of hanging calamus at the head of the door or drinking pharmaceutical wine with calamus. Girls' Day, the Ming Dynasty Shen Bang "Wan Office Miscella" volume seventeen days:"Girls' Day in May, the dragon boat rope, wear Moxa leaves, five poison charms. Wan Vulgarity, from the first day of May to the first five days, decorate a little girl, as beautiful as possible. Married womenalso return to ning, because called for women's da

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