Dragon Boat Festival

This traditional holiday also called the Double Fifth festival is celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar called 农历 or nónglì in Chinese. What is the legend behind the festival.

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WEB June 21 2018.

. Chinese people will have a 3-day holiday from June 8th to 10th. The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar year signifies the Dragon Boat Festival throughout Asia. WEB In 2024 Dragon Boat Festival falls on June 10 Saturday.

WEB The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. The event registered as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of. In September 2009 UNESCO officially approved its inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity becoming the first Chinese.

WEB There are many competing explanations for Duanwu Jie the Dragon Boat Festival which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendarthis year May 28. The Dragon Boat Festival is called Duan Wu Jie in Chinese. WEB The Dragon Boat Festival 端午节 or Duānwǔjié in pīnyīn is an official public holiday in Mainland China.

This year the festival falls on June 22. WEB Dragon Boat festival. Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four top traditional Chinese festivals along with the Spring Festival Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival.

WEB The renowned Dragon Boat Festival also known as Tuen Ng falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. WEB Dragon Boat Festival 2024. Updated on April 19 2019.

In 2024 the Dragon Boat Festival falls on Monday June 10 in China. 3 min read. WEB Charles Custer.

Inscribed in 2009 4COM on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. China will have 3 days of public holiday from Saturday June 8 to Monday June 10. WEB The Dragon Boat Festival is a folk festival integrating worship of gods and ancestors praying for good luck and warding off evil spirits celebrating entertainment and eating.

Beginning on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month people of several ethnic groups throughout China and the world celebrate the Dragon Boat festival especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. Courtesy of Hong Kong Tourism Board. The most popular theory of the origin of the festival is that it was derived from the commemoration of a great patriot poet Qu Yuan.

Dragon Boat Festival or Duan Wu Jie is one of the three most important lunar festivals in China along with Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. It commemorates the death of Qu Yuan a Chinese poet and minister known for his patriotism and contributions to classical poetry and who eventually became a national hero.

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