202 1 What's the date of Dragon Boat Festival? When is the Dragon Boat Festival this year?

202 1 what's the date of the Dragon Boat Festival? 202 1 Dragon Boat Festival Time: Monday, 2021June 14 (the fifth day of May in the Year of the Ox). Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it. Dragon Boat Festival, originally founded by ancestors, is a festival to worship the ancestors of dragons and pray for evil spirits. It is said that Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, jumped into the Miluo River on May 5th and committed suicide. Later, people also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. There are also sayings in memory of Wu Zixu, Cao E and meson push. Generally speaking, the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the ancient ancestors' choice of "flying dragons over the sky" as an auspicious day to worship their ancestors and pray for evil spirits, and injected the seasonal fashion of "eliminating diseases and preventing epidemics" into summer. The Dragon Boat Festival, regarded as "bad month and bad day", began in the northern part of the Central Plains and was attached to commemorate Qu Yuan and other historical figures. The original meaning of "Duan" in "Dragon Boat Festival" is "Zheng" and "Wu" is "Zhong". The same is true of Dragon Boat Festival (the fifth day of Dragon Boat Festival) and Zhongzheng. At noon this day, that's right. In addition, the end also means "early", so the first noon in May is called Dragon Boat Festival. The ancients took heavenly stems and earthly branches as the carrier, and the heavens and the earth supported the way of the earth, and set up heavenly stems and earthly branches to contract the fate of heaven and earth. Ancient people used heavenly stems and earthly branches to represent calendar year, calendar month, calendar day and calendar time. According to the calendar, according to the order of the twelve earthly branches, May is called "noon month" and noon day is called "heavy noon", so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang". On midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, the flying dragon is in the sky, and Long Xing is in the position of "Zhongzheng", which means good luck. Other names of the Dragon Boat Festival: China-Japan Festival is named because the Dragon Boat Festival is just around the summer, the direct point of the sun is on the tropic of cancer, and the position of the sun in the sky is the highest in a year. Tian Rucheng's Journey to the West Lake Volume 20 Ode to Joy in Ming Dynasty: "The reason why the Dragon Boat Festival is the Mid-Autumn Festival is because the sun goes to Zhongtian at noon and reaches the highest point, and you run away at noon." The era method of the ancient branch of the Double Ninth Festival is based on heavenly stems and earthly branches, and the era is generally used in heavenly stems and earthly branches. At first, the Dragon Boat Festival was the noon day of the calendar, with the first month as the first month, the fifth month as the noon month, and the noon day as the heavy noon. In the Han Dynasty, due to the unification of North and South and the change of calendar, the court decided to change the Dragon Boat Festival to the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to facilitate the festival. Dragon boat race is the earliest form of ancestor worship in ancient times. The ancestors widely used boats and boats, and they often painted dragons on the boats as the totem or protector of the tribe. Dragon boat rowing is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, so it is also called Dragon Boat Festival. In the fifth flood season, in some rural areas of Shanghai, Fengxian, Nanhui and other places near the north bank of Hangzhou Bay, it is customary to call "Dragon Boat Festival" as "noon flood season". There are also some areas called "noon in May". Dragon Boat Festival Ancient ancestors held the Dragon Boat Festival on the Dragon Boat Festival, which was actually a "Dragon Boat Festival" at that time. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Long Zaitian, the black dragon's main spark (Antares) is high in the south, and the dragon god (Yang God) is vigorous. The "dragon" mentioned in the Book of Changes and the Divination is essentially an exposition of the operation of the black dragon at four o'clock a year for seven nights. Dragon Boat Festival is in midsummer, which is a season with frequent skin diseases. At noon, plants and trees have the strongest medicinal properties in a year. The herbs collected on this day are the most effective in treating skin diseases and ward off evil spirits. The Dragon Boat Festival has the folk custom of collecting herbs and boiling water to take a bath, so it is called Bathing Orchid Festival. The Great Dai Li in the Han Dynasty said, "Wash blue soup in the afternoon". The last day of the Dragon Boat Festival is called "the last day" in some places, which means "the day of God". It also means good days and festivals. Acorus calamus Festival and wormwood Festival The ancients believed that Acorus calamus and wormwood had the function of ward off evil spirits. During the Dragon Boat Festival, the sun is strong, and wormwood and calamus flourish. Every year, people have the custom of hanging calamus or wormwood on their doors to ward off evil spirits, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Acorus calamus Festival" and "wormwood Festival". In ancient times, the north called it "the month to ward off evil spirits", so in some places during the Dragon Boat Festival, parents would send their children under one year old to their grandmother's house to hide from evil spirits, so it was called "the hiding afternoon festival". Daughter's Day Shen Mingbang's Miscellaneous Notes: "May Daughter's Day is the Dragon Boat Festival rope, wearing the five poisonous spells of wormwood leaves. 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. " Taoism divides the whole year into five waxes, the first day of the first month and the fifth day of May. According to "The Jade Book of the Imperial Road" and "Seven Stories on the Cloud", on the first day of May, on the day of the gathering of the five emperors, the five emperors will check the ancestors of strangers and see what their descendants did in the south, so as to convict them and make them official titles. Taoism believes that several twelfth lunar months in a year are auspicious days, which are suitable for offering sacrifices to ancestors and praying for the gods.