We all know that Dragon Boat Festival is an extremely important festival in our life. It has a long history in China, so it has various nicknames. What are the nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May? Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Summer Festival, Evil Day Festival, Herb Picking Festival, Medicine Delivery Festival, Ai Festival, Chang Festival, Pu Festival, Acorus calamus Festival, Mulan Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival, Fighting Grass Festival, Children's Day, Doll Festival, Sachet Festival, etc. Duanyang is named because five is a positive number (odd number is yang and even number is yin), so Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanyang. Evil Day, Ai Festival, Pu Festival, Lan Bathing Festival, Grass Cutting Festival and Children's Day are called because during the Dragon Boat Festival, it was considered as an evil day of poisonous month in ancient times. Traditional folk customs require people to go up the mountain to collect herbs, hold plants belonging to medicinal materials such as Artemisia argyi and Acorus calamus on doors or halls, drink yellow rice wine for men and bathe in orchid soup. Children should wear sachets and tie them around their necks, hands or ankles with colorful silk ropes. (Adults can see the origin of the above names from the introduction of the basic contents of festivals. Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Dragon Son Festival are the viewpoints put forward by famous scholar Wen Yiduo in the Dragon Boat Festival Examination. He believes that four or five thousand years ago, Wu Yue people regarded dragons as totems and considered them as sons and grandchildren of dragons. The Dragon Boat Festival was originally a festival where Wuyue people held dragon totem sacrifices, and the dragon boat race was a semi-religious and semi-entertainment program.

In other words, Dragon Boat Festival or Dragon Son Festival is not another name for the Dragon Boat Festival, but the original name of the Dragon Boat Festival. The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival comes from the Dragon Totem Sacrifice Day of ethnic minorities. Dragon boat race is not to commemorate Qu Yuan, but an activity that existed long before Qu Yuan. This view has been generally accepted by academic circles. Strictly speaking, these names are not nicknames for the Dragon Boat Festival, but festivals that coincide with the Dragon Boat Festival and have other origins. The specific situation of this article is omitted. If you want to know more, you can search and consult online like Baidu.

There is another one that must be listed separately, because it can't be classified and it is particularly interesting. It's called the White Bonus Festival. This nickname was first put forward by the author in 1994. Miscellaneous notes when I was five years old: On the Dragon Boat Festival, everyone held a banquet to celebrate and reward all the workers. They all quit their jobs and went to restaurants to drink, which is called the White Reward Festival. In other words, during the Dragon Boat Festival, well-off families held many banquets, so people from all walks of life went to eat for free, thus giving birth to such an alias as Chin Beauty.