Dragon Boat Festival

English Etymology en zh 龍船節 or zh 龍舟節, an alternative name for zh 端午節 from the races traditionally held on that day in southern China, now popularly connected with the legend of townspeople racing to throw zongzi into the Miluo River to preserve the body of the Chu poet and statesman Qu Yuan. Proper noun the Dragon Boat Festival A Chinese holiday on Duanwu, the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1977-06-19_18_24/ June 19, 1977 Dragon Boat Festival Honors famed statesman-poet T. K. Yang Free China Weekly Taipei XVIII 24 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1977-06-19_18_24/page/n1/ Behind the Dragon Boat Festival is the tragically heroic story of a famous Chinese poet and statesman of ancient times, Chu Yuan, who ended his life by jumping into a river. His reason: he was not able to save his country, which he saw heading toward destruction. en https://archive.org/details/yangtzenaturehis00vans/ 1988 Yangtze: Nature, History and the River Lyman P. Van Slyke w:Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc. 0-201-08894-0 137 https://archive.org/details/yangtzenaturehis00vans/page/137/ In the folk tradition, rites, festivals, and myths began an early accretion around an apotheosized Ch'ü Yuan. The most famous of these, the Dragon Boat Festival (Tuan-wu chieh), takes place on the summer solstice, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, ostensibly to search for Ch'ü Yuan's body. Synonyms Double Fifth, Double Fifth Festival Duanwu, Duanwu Festival Dumpling Festival Tuen Ng Festival Hong Kong Translations Chinese holiday Bengali: bn আজদাহা নাও মেলা azdaha nao mela Betawi: bew Pècun Bouyei: pcc Chinese: Cantonese: yue 端午節 dyun1 ng5 zit3, yue 端午 dyun1 ng5, yue 五月節 ng5 jyut6 zit3, yue 端陽節 dyun1 joeng4 zit3, yue 端陽 dyun1 joeng4, yue 龍舟節 lung4 zau1 zit3 Hakka: hak 五月節 Ńg-ngie̍t-chiet Hokkien: nan-hbl 五月節 Gō͘-ge̍h-choeh, Gō͘-goe̍h-cheh, nan-hbl 五日節 Gō͘-ji̍t-cheh, Gō͘-li̍t-choeh Mandarin: cmn 端午節 Duānwǔjié, cmn 端午 Duānwǔ, cmn 端陽節 Duānyángjié, cmn 端陽 Duānyáng, cmn 龍船節 Lóngchuánjié, cmn 龍舟節 Lóngzhōujié French: fr Festival des bateaux-dragons m Indonesian: id Pecun, id Peh Cun Japanese: ja Korean: ko Polish: pl Święto Smoczych Łodzi n Tibetan: bo Vietnamese: vi Tết Đoan Ngọ, vi Lễ hội thuyền rồng Zhuang: za ngux nyied co'ngux See also Duanwu Festival en China Holidays Festivals