Duanwu Festival is June 22, 2023.

Duanwu Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., the date of the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, is a collection of worship of gods and ancestors, praying for blessings and warding off evil spirits, celebrating and entertaining and eating as a big folk festival. The Dragon Boat Festival originates from the worship of natural phenomena and evolves from the sacrifice of dragons in the ancient times.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the Chinese character cultural circle. Legend has it that Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu during the Warring States period, jumped into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to kill himself, and the Dragon Boat Festival has been regarded by the later generations as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, as well as to honor Wu Zixu, Cao'e, and Jie ZiTui, among other sayings. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects, and contains profound and rich cultural connotations.

The origin of the festival

The Dragon Boat Festival originated from the worship of the celestial phenomena, evolved from the ancient times of the dragon totem rituals, Dragon Boat Festival rituals and customs with the primitive beliefs, sacrificial culture, the dry calendars, as well as the Canglong seven hosts are located in the south of the celestial phenomena related. Ancient Chinese astrological culture has a long and profound history, the ancients began to explore the mysteries of the universe, and thus deduced a complete set of esoteric stargazing culture.

According to the "Spring and Autumn Annals": "heaven and earth opened up, everything is muddy, no knowledge; yin and yang by virtue of the celestial body began at the North Pole of the field, the sun and the moon, five latitude and longitude of a round turn; the emperor of the sky out of it, set the image of the sky, the law of the ground's instrument, for the sun and the moon for the dry branch of the degree". Ancient times people set the image of the sky, the law of the instrument, according to the orbit and location of the sun, moon and stars, the ecliptic and the equator near the region is divided into 28 groups of stars, commonly known as the twenty-eight hosts.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Dragon Boat Festival