What is the Dragon Boat Festival also called? Have you heard of the most interesting name of the Dragon Boat Festival?

What is the Dragon Boat Festival also called? The annual Dragon Boat Festival is here. According to statistics, the nicknames of the Dragon Boat Festival are the most common among my country's traditional festivals. Want to know what the most interesting nickname for the Dragon Boat Festival is? Friends who are interested, let us find out more quickly.

What is the Dragon Boat Festival also called?

Dragon Son Festival

This is the viewpoint put forward by the famous scholar Wen Yiduo in "A Study of the Dragon Boat Festival". He believed that four or five thousand years ago, the Wu and Yue ethnic groups worshipped the dragon as their totem and considered themselves to be the descendants of the dragon. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival for the Wu and Yue ethnic groups to worship the dragon totem, and dragon boat racing was a semi-religious, semi-entertainment program in the ceremony. That is to say, the Dragon Festival, also known as the Dragon Son Festival, is not another name for the Dragon Boat Festival, but the real name of the Dragon Boat Festival. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival comes from the dragon totem worship day of ethnic minorities. Dragon boat racing is not to commemorate Qu Yuan, but an activity that existed long before Qu Yuan. This view is now widely accepted by the academic community.

Zongzi Festival

Eating rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival has become a specific festival custom. People from both the south and the north eat rice dumplings on this day. According to historical records, rice dumplings appeared as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. In the Jin Dynasty, rice dumplings were officially designated as food for the Dragon Boat Festival. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the "Zongzi Festival". In addition, when the ancients ate zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival, there was a game in which they compared the length of the zongzi leaves they untied, and the tallest one won, so it is also known as the "Zongzi Untying Festival."

Dragon Boat Festival

There are several theories as to why the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Duan Yang Festival. One of them is that the ancients believed that five was a yang number, so it is also called the Duan Yang Festival. Another theory comes from "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji". According to the records, because people climb high places in midsummer when the sun is high, May is midsummer, and its first noon is the day when the weather is good for climbing high places, so the fifth day of May is called "Dragon Boat Festival". In addition, according to the ancients' use of the twelve Earthly Branches to correspond to the months, "Wu" belongs to the twelve Earthly Branches, and the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the Wu month, and Wu has the same pronunciation as five. The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of May every year, which means that five and five overlap each other, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the "Double Fifth Festival", and in some places it is also called the "May Festival".