The Dragon Boat Festival， also called the Duanwu Festival， is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. This festival is to commemorate the death of QU Yuan， an upright and honest poet and statesman who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.
The Dragon Boat Festival, the 5th day of the 5th month in the Chinese lunar calendar, has had a history of more than 2,000 years. It is usually in June in the Solar calendar.
历史
端午节是中国古老的传统节日，始于春秋战国时期，至今已有2000多年历史。通常在阳历的六月份。
TODAY
Today, Dragon Boat Festival in the Chinese people is still a very popular grand festival. Country attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage, May 20, 2006, the State Council approved the inclusion of the folk first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
Since ancient times, Japan has had a tradition of Chinese festivals. In Japan, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival was introduced from China to Japan after the era of peace. From the Meiji era, festivals are changed to Gregorian calendar days. The Dragon Boat Festival in Japan is the May 5th of the Gregorian calendar. The custom of Dragon Boat Festival has been absorbed and transformed into Japanese traditional culture after its spread to Japan. The Japanese do not row dragon boats on this day, but they also eat dumplings like Chinese people and hang Acorus grass in front of the door. In 1948, the Dragon Boat Festival was officially designated as the statutory children's day by the Japanese government and became one of the five major festivals in Japan.The Dragon Boat Festival has become a traditional custom. The Japanese call it "Ai Qi Zhao Bai Fu, Pu Jian Chai thousand evil." The festival special diet is Japanese dumplings and pancakes.
People on the Korean Peninsula think that the Dragon Boat Festival is a celebration and a time to worship the sky. On the Korean Peninsula in the agricultural society, the traditional sacrificial activities that the public participated in were praying for a bumper harvest. During the ceremony, there will be activities such as masquerade, Korean wrestling, swinging and Taekwondo.
