The Dragon Boat Festival is expressed in English as Dragon Boat Festival.

Pronounced [?dr?ɡ?n]? [bo?t]? [?fest?vl].

Duanwu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) sentences:

1. This year's Dragon Boat Festival is June 14 on the solar calendar.

The?Dragon?Boat?Festival?falls?on?the?14th?of?June?this?year.?

2. The Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar.

The?Dragon?Boat?Festival?is?celebrated?on?the?fifth?day?of?the?fifth?lunar?month.?

3.L: Oh, they are preparing for the Dragon Boat Festival tomorrow in honor of Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan was a great poet in ancient China. On that day, we will also throw the dumplings into the lake or river.

L:?Oh,?they're?preparing?for?tomorrow's?Dragon?Boat?Festival?in?memory?of?Qu?Yuan.?Qu?Yuan?was?a?great?poet?in?ancient? China.On?that?day,?we?also?throw?zongzi?into?the?lake?or?river.

4. A: Yes, it is the Dragon Boat Festival, but (in English) it is usually called the Dragon Boat Festival.

A: Yup,?Duan?Wu?Festival,?but?it's?also?just?simply?called?the?Dragon?Boat?Festival.?

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 commemorating him; there are also sayings commemorating Wu Zixu, Cao'e, and Jie Zi Tui, and so on.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects of the content, contains a profound and rich cultural connotation, in the development of the inheritance of a variety of folklore as a whole, due to the different regional cultures and the existence of customary content or details of the differences between the different regions.

The Dragon Boat Festival is known as one of the four major traditional festivals in China, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The culture of the Dragon Boat Festival has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions of the world also have activities to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

In May 2006, the State Council included it in the first national list of intangible cultural heritage; since 2008, it has been listed as a national legal holiday. 2009 September, UNESCO formally approved its inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and the Dragon Boat Festival has become the first festival in China to be selected as one of the world's intangible heritage.