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Dragon Boat Festival en · PROPN

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 龍船節 /龙船节 (Lóngchuánjié) or 龍舟節 /龙舟节 (Lóngzhōujié), an alternative name for 端午節 /端午节 (Duānwǔjié) 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.

Meanings

1. A Chinese holiday on Duanwu, the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar
   • 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. 1988, Lyman P. Van Slyke, Yangtze: Nature, History and the River, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 137:
   • 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. 1977 June 19, T. K. Yang, “Dragon Boat Festival Honors famed statesman-poet”, in Free China Weekly, volume XVIII, number 24, Taipei, page 2:

Forms

Synonyms

Double Fifth Festival · Double Fifth · Duanwu Festival · Tuen Ng Festival · Dumpling Festival · Duanwu

Translations (24)

vi Lễ hội thuyền rồng (Chinese holiday) · yue 端陽 /端阳 (Chinese holiday) · vi Tết Đoan Ngọ (Chinese holiday) · cmn 端陽 /端阳 (Chinese holiday) · bn আজদাহা নাও মেলা (Chinese holiday) · yue 端午 (Chinese holiday) · yue 五月節 /五月节 (Chinese holiday) · za ngux nyied co'ngux (Chinese holiday) · pl Święto Smoczych Łodzi (Chinese holiday) · cmn 龍舟節 /龙舟节 (Chinese holiday) · cmn 端陽節 /端阳节 (Chinese holiday) · id Pecun (Chinese holiday) · yue 端陽節 /端阳节 (Chinese holiday) · id Peh Cun (Chinese holiday) · bew Pècun (Chinese holiday) · yue 端午節 /端午节 (Chinese holiday) · cmn 端午 (Chinese holiday) · hak 五月節 /五月节 (Chinese holiday) · nan-hbl 五日節 /五日节 (Chinese holiday) · cmn 龍船節 /龙船节 (Chinese holiday) · cmn 端午節 /端午节 (Chinese holiday) · fr Festival des bateaux-dragons (Chinese holiday) · yue 龍舟節 /龙舟节 (Chinese holiday) · nan-hbl 五月節 /五月节 (Chinese holiday)