When is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2018? How to arrange holidays?
The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the more popular festivals of the year and one of my country's traditional festivals. When is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2018? How to arrange the Dragon Boat Festival holiday in 2018? The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four major traditional festivals every year and has very important significance in the traditional culture of the Chinese nation. The Fortune Teller website will tell you all about the 2018 Dragon Boat Festival.When is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2018?May 5, 2018, MondayThe origin of Dragon Boat Festival:The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. According to the "Jingchu Sui Shi Ji", because people climb high places in midsummer when the sun is in the sky, and May is midsummer, its first noon is the day for climbing high places in the sky, so the fifth day of May is also called the "Dragon Boat Festival." In addition, the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Midday Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Poets Festival", etc. The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese cultural circle.The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It is a festival for totem worship held by tribes that worshipped the dragon totem in the ancient Wu Yue region (the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and the area to the south). It is said that the custom of holding tribal totem worship in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. During the Warring States Period, Qu Yuan, a poet from the Chu State (now Hubei), committed suicide by jumping into the Miluo River with a stone in his arms. In order to establish a label of loyalty and patriotism, the rulers designated the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. In some areas, there is also a saying that it is a festival to commemorate Wu Zixu and Cao E. The Dragon Boat Festival is known as one of the four major traditional festivals of the Chinese folk, along with the Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. Since ancient times, the Dragon Boat Festival has included festival activities such as dragon boat racing and eating rice dumplings. Since 2008, the Dragon Boat Festival has been listed as a national statutory holiday. In May 2006, the State Council included it in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list; in September 2009, UNESCO formally reviewed and approved the inclusion of China's Dragon Boat Festival in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage, making it the first Chinese festival to be selected as a world intangible cultural heritage. 2018 Dragon Boat Festival Holiday ArrangementsThe Dragon Boat Festival in 2018 will be on Monday, June 18, 2018, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It is expected that we will be on holiday from June 16 to June 18, 2018, a total of 3 days, and will officially return to work on Tuesday, June 19. |
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