What festival is on the fifth day of May? Can I go back to my parents’ home to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

What festival is on the fifth day of May? Can I go back to my parents’ home to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?
What festival is on the fifth day of May? Can I go back to my parents’ home to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival? The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival rich in folk significance, with customs such as dragon boat racing, eating rice dumplings, and hanging cattail and wormwood. Pomegranate flowers are in full bloom in May of the lunar calendar. Han Yu has a poem that says "The pomegranate flowers in May are bright to the eyes". If you want to know more about May of the lunar calendar in 2019, come to Mr. Shui Mo!

What festival is on May 5th?

The fifth day of the fifth month is the Dragon Boat Festival, an ancient traditional Chinese festival. According to statistics, the Dragon Boat Festival has the most names among all traditional Chinese festivals, with more than twenty names. The commonly used name from the Tang Dynasty to the Han Dynasty was "May 5th". After the Tang Dynasty, Dragon Boat Festival replaced "May 5th" and other nicknames and became the mainstream name. In the process of inheritance and development, the Dragon Boat Festival has integrated many folk customs from many places. The folk customs are numerous and complex, and have different names in various parts of the country, vividly reflecting the similarities and differences in the Dragon Boat Festival customs in various places.

Can I go back to my parents’ home for Dragon Boat Festival?

In Zigui, Hubei, there is a saying among the people that "The Dragon Boat Festival is more important than the Spring Festival, and girls return to their parents' homes." The Dragon Boat Festival is even more grand than the Spring Festival. Married women have to bring their husbands and children back to their parents' homes to pay homage to their parents. They may walk, ride in sedan chairs, ride on horses, or take boats back to their parents' home to reunite with their family members and celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. The daughter's parents have to prepare food and wine and invite friends and relatives to spend a happy day together. Married women in old Beijing would return to their parents' home to visit during the Dragon Boat Festival. When visiting, they would tie colorful silk threads on their arms and wear red velvet flowers on their chests.
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