Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is one of the four top traditional Chinese festivals along with the Spring Festival Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival. WEB Charles Custer.

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The other three are Chinese New Year Mid-Autumn Festival and Qingming Festival.

. This year the festival falls on June 22. Duānwǔ jié is a traditional Chinese holiday which occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar which corresponds to late May or June in the Gregorian calendar. WEB Dragon Boat Festival 2024.

In 2024 the Dragon Boat Festival falls on Monday June 10 in China. WEB A memorial ceremony offering sacrifices to a local hero is combined with sporting events such as dragon races dragon boating and willow shooting. Courtesy of Hong Kong Tourism Board.

This traditional holiday also called the Double Fifth festival is celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese lunar calendar called 农历 or nónglì in Chinese. What is the legend behind the festival. Feasts of rice dumplings eggs and ruby sulphur wine.

WEB The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. Chinese people will have a 3-day holiday from June 8th to 10th. Time for Dragon Boat Race.

Dragon Boat Festival or Duan Wu Jie is one of the three most important lunar festivals in China along with Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. WEB The Dragon Boat Festival 端午节 or Duānwǔjié in pīnyīn is an official public holiday in Mainland China. WEB In 2024 Dragon Boat Festival falls on June 10 Saturday.

Updated on April 19 2019. WEB The Dragon Boat Festival traditional Chinese. WEB Dragon Boat Festival also called Duanwu Festival is one of the four grandest traditional festivals in China falling on 5th day of the 5th month in Chinese lunar calendar.

The Dragon Boat Festival is called Duan Wu Jie in Chinese. WEB The renowned Dragon Boat Festival also known as Tuen Ng falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It commemorates the death of Qu Yuan a Chinese poet and minister known for his patriotism and contributions to classical poetry and who eventually became a national hero.

And folk entertainments including opera song and unicorn dances. WEB There are many competing explanations for Duanwu Jie the Dragon Boat Festival which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendarthis year May 28. The most popular theory of the origin of the festival is that it was derived from the commemoration of a great patriot poet Qu Yuan.

China will have 3 days of public holiday from Saturday June 8 to Monday June 10.

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