Literally, the Dragon Boat Festival also has names such as "Dragon Boat Festival", "Chongwu" and "Chongwu". "Duan" has the meaning of beginning and ending in ancient Chinese, and calling "Duan Wu" is just like calling "the fifth day". "Local Customs" said: "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival. End, start. " There are three five days in a month, and the first five days are the Dragon Boat Festival. The ancients used to call the first few days of May end to end respectively. In Yuan Dynasty, Chen's Chronicle of Years Old says: "City dust people take the first day of May as the beginning and end, the second day as the beginning and end, and the even number five as the beginning and end."
According to the chronological order of heavenly stems and earthly branches, the first month of the lunar calendar begins in silver moon. According to the chronological order of Tatsumi's ugly son, May is "noon month" and noon is "sunny day", so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang". In the afternoon, the ancients and the "Five" are common, so the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival are synonymous. Because the number of months is the same as the number of days, people also call the Dragon Boat Festival "Double Five Festival" or "Double Noon Festival".
According to statistics, there are more than 20 names of the Dragon Boat Festival, such as Dragon Boat Festival, Duanyang Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Day Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Chang 'e Festival, Pujie Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Magnolia Festival, Quyuan Festival, Noon Festival, Daughter's Day, Dila Festival, Poet's Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Noon Festival and Lantern Festival.
Second, the meaning of the word Dragon Boat Festival:
The word "Duan" of the Dragon Boat Festival means "the beginning", so "Dragon Boat Festival" means "the fifth day". According to the calendar, May is the noon month, so the Dragon Boat Festival has gradually evolved into the Dragon Boat Festival. The Chronicle of Yanjing Years Old records: "The fifth day is the fifth day of May, and the transliteration of the word' Duan' is also stamped."
Duanyang Festival is midsummer according to the records of Jingchu Chronicle, because the mountain climbs in midsummer, the sun is in the sky and May is midsummer. Its first afternoon is a good day to climb mountains in the sun, so it is called Duanyang Festival on the fifth day of May.
Mid-Autumn Festival belongs to the twelve earthly branches. May of the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival, and five is homophonic, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Mid-Autumn Festival or the Mid-Autumn Festival, and in some places it is also called the May Festival.