Duanwu-jie (Chinese holiday)

duanwu jie

(Globe Language) (noun) 端午节, Lóngzhou-jie (龙舟节) Dragon boat Festival, literally in Chinese long 龙 = dragon, zhou 舟 = boat, jie 节 = festival.

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Duanwu-jie 端午节, Lóngzhou-jie (龙舟节)  (Dragon Boat Festival) is one of the four biggest traditional Chinese folk festivals such as the Spring Festival, the Ching Ming Festival, and Mid-Autumn Festival.  The Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world. Some countries and regions in the world also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

Duanwu-jie, often known as the Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional holiday originating in China, occurring near the summer solstice. Duanwu-jie occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional Chinese calendar, which is the source of the festival’s alternative name, the Double Fifth Festival. The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, so the date of the festival varies from year to year on the Gregorian calendar. In 2016, it occurred on 9 June; in 2017, on 30 May; in 2018, on 18 June; in 2019, on 7 June; in 2020, on 25 June, in 2022, on June 3.. 

Duanwu-jie is also known as Zhong-xiao Festival (忠孝节), commemorating fealty and filial piety. Duan-Wu-jie is said to commemorate the death of the poet Qu-yuan of the Zhou Dynasty. The poet Qu-yuan drowned himself in a river in protest of the failure of other officials’ misjudgments band because he lost his country. Duanwu-jie is said that the people, who admired him, raced out in their boats to save him, or at least retrieve his body. This is said to have been the origin of dragon boat races. When his body could not be found, they dropped balls of sticky rice into the river so that the fish would eat them instead of Qu Yuan’s body. This is also the origin of Zong-zi a tradition of food Chinese people eat each year during Duanwu-jie.

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