Why this year"s Dragon Boat Festival is tied for the latest in the 21st century? What is the specific time?
The Dragon Boat Festival in 2020 falls on June 25th of the Gregorian calendar, which is tied with 2001 and 2058 as the latest Dragon Boat Festival in the 21st century.This is because these three years are all in the lunar calendar.In a leap year, the corresponding Gregorian date is adjusted to become the Dragon Boat Festival with the latest Gregorian date.
Dragon Boat Festival is no stranger to Chinese people.It is one of the legal holidays in China and one of the world"s intangible cultural heritage.Whenever the fifth day of the fifth lunar month comes During the period, people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival and have festival customs such as dragon boat racing.The Dragon Boat Festival was originally the worship and sacrifice of the dragon totem by the ancestors of the Yellow River Basin, which is a traditional festival of the Han people, but now 28 ethnic minorities are also celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival.
Is the time of the Dragon Boat Festival not fixed?
The lunar date of the Dragon Boat Festival is fixed.On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, it was recorded as early as ancient times that "the Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival".The fifth day of the lunar month is the same day as the summer solstice.” This means that the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival every year.However, the Gregorian calendar time of the Dragon Boat Festival is not fixed, because the Gregorian calendar date corresponding to the fifth day of the fifth lunar month is different every year.In the 21st century, the Gregorian calendar date of the Dragon Boat Festival is June 25 at the latest, corresponding to The years are 2001, 2020 and 2058, the reason why this happens is because of the existence of the lunar leap month.
When is the Dragon Boat Festival in 2020?
The Dragon Boat Festival in 2020 is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and June 25th in the Gregorian calendar.Whenever the Dragon Boat Festival comes, people have to celebrate and prepare the corresponding festival items, such as zongzi, wormwood, colorful ropes, etc., and finally the family reunites to eat zongzi, hang wormwood, fly kites, wash herbal water , tie five-color silk threads, play water at noon, cast Yang Sui, dip in dragon boat water, wear damselfly, paste noon time symbols, worship gods and ancestors, drink realgar wine, hide Dragon Boat Festival, avoid five poisons, etc.
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