Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is one of popular Chinese traditional festival, and the Chinese have been used to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival for over two thousand years.

Do you know other name except for "Dragon Boat Festival"

Dragon Boat Day has many different names in Chinese cultures, here is some lists to explain them.

Duanwu Festival

Duanwu daye is on the fifth day of may in china lunnar time , "端" means beginning, so it is called "duanwu".

Duanyang Festival

Date back to the ancient times, May is in summer, very good time to clime mountain, that is "Duanyang"

Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Race is a big event in the South, especially in Guangdong province. It is a gym entertainment activity in the folk, which is to celebrate the big day . Many dragon shape boats on the lake, all people go to each boat, when all is set, all people will take full effort to go for a row.

Jiezong Festival

In ancient time, when people ate zongzi, they carefully untie zongzi leave to compare whose is longer. it is the origin of Jiezong Festival.

What people like to do on the big day?

Hang Artemisia vulgaris

duanwu is the first festial in summer, and the temperature is rising, when is the peak time for all diseases.People will hang several Artemisia vulgaris on the doorway, because its special smell to drive disease, mosquito away, and fend off evil.

Eat Zongzi

People like zongzi in this day, it is long history, till now there are more and more taste for option.

Fly a kite

in the south, Children love to fly a kite.

Pick & Make Tea-leaves

in some area of the North, people like to pick tender tea leaves, wild vegetables leaf, and dry them in the sun, then make them to tea. 

Dragon Boat Festival is not the exclusive holiday in China, and it is also a big day in Korea, Japan, Singapore, Vietman. Different country will some differences to celebrate it.

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