Half of May has passed. Although the May Day holiday is less than 10 days, everyone has been complaining. Don't worry, the Dragon Boat Festival is coming soon, and it will be less than a month. Specific time or to see the following about the introduction of the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019!
What day is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019
The 2019 Dragon Boat Festival is on June 7, and the national legal holiday date is from June 7 to June 9, with a total of three days off. In 2019, the Dragon Boat Festival holiday and weekend break, namely June 7-9, 2019, a total of 3 days. Among them, the Dragon Boat Festival on June 7 is a legal holiday.
Holiday days of the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019: 3 days
Start time of the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019: June 7 (Dragon Boat Festival)
The end time of the Dragon Boat Festival in 2019: June 9
Is the 2019 Dragon Boat Festival a legal holiday
The Dragon Boat Festival is a legal holiday. According to the state regulations, all citizens have three days off.
The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. According to the records of Jingchu Sui Shi Ji, Shunyang is on the top of the mountain in midsummer, and may is midsummer. Its first noon day is the day of good weather. Therefore, the fifth day of May is also called the Dragon Boat Festival. In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the 'noon day festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Yulan Festival, poet's Day' and so on. [1] The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the circle of Chinese character culture.
Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. At first, it was a festival of totem sacrifice held by the tribes worshiping dragon totem in ancient Baiyue area (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the South). Before the spring and Autumn period, there was a custom of totem sacrifice held by the tribes in the form of dragon boat race on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in Baiyue area. Later, Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu state (now Hubei Province) in the Warring States period, killed himself in the Miluo River on that day. In order to establish the label of loyalty and patriotism, the rulers took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some areas, Wu Zixu and Cao E were also commemorated.
The Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid Autumn Festival are known as the four traditional Chinese festivals. [2] Since ancient times, there have been Dragon Boat Festival and rice dumplings and other festival activities. Since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national legal holiday. In May 2006, the State Council listed it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; in September 2009, UNESCO officially reviewed and approved the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival to be listed in the world intangible cultural heritage list, becoming China's first festival to be included in the world intangible cultural heritage list.
The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular folk festival in China. It has been a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Due to the vast territory, many nationalities, and many stories and legends, there are not only many different Festival names, but also different customs. As early as in ancient times, Baiyue had the custom of offering sacrifices to the Dragon ancestor in the form of dragon boat race on the afternoon of the moon and the afternoon when the pure sun was strong. Today, Dragon Boat picking is still an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival. In ancient times, there were different customs between the north and the south. When the Yue people in the South held dragon totem sacrifices on auspicious days, the Central Plains in the North took the Dragon Boat Festival as a "bad moon and bad day" and avoided it. With the development of history, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival has been popular in summer. Summer is also a season to get rid of pestilence. On the day of Dragon Boat Festival, there are also activities of exorcism and epidemic prevention. According to the number of yin and Yang, the noon is Yang, the double noon is Zhiyang, and the sun moves to the middle of the sky and reaches the point on the afternoon. Therefore, it is believed that the double noon is an auspicious day when the pure Yang of heaven and earth is extremely strong. The ancients regarded the noon of the Dragon Boat Festival as the most favorable time to ward off evil spirits. The ancients also regarded the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, which coincided with the summer solstice, as an auspicious year, and called it the Dragon Flower Festival, which has the saying that it is a once-in-a-lifetime Dragon Flower Festival. Many Dragon Boat Festival Customs inherited from ancient times have the connotation of "exorcism and epidemic prevention", such as hanging wormwood, Mulan soup, and fumigating Atractylodes.