Dragon Boat Festival
| 端午節 Dragon Boat Festival |
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Dragon Boat Festival (18th century)
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| Official name | Dragon Boat Festival () Dragon Boat Festival () Tuen Ng Festival () |
| Also called | Duanyang () Double Fifth Festival () Dragon Boat Festival () Fifth Month Festival () Fifth Day Festival () Dumpling Festival () Zhongxiao Festival () |
| Observed by | Chinese |
| Type | Cultural |
| Observances | Dragon boat racing, consumption of xionghuangjiu and zongzi |
| Date | 5th day of the 5th lunar month |
| 2016 date | June 9 |
| 2017 date | May 30 |
| 2018 date | June 18 |
| Frequency | annual |
| Related to | Children's Day, Dano, Tết Đoan Ngọ, Yukka Nu Hii |
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| Literal meaning | Opening the Seventh Opening Yang |
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| Literal meaning | Pork Zongzi Festival | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Portuguese | Festividade do Barco-Dragão | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Duānwǔjié Duānyángjié |
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| Suzhounese | Toe ng tsih |
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| Yale Romanization | Tuen1 Ng5 Jit3 (HK) Tun(g)1 Ng5 Jit3 (M) |
| Jyutping | Dyun1 Ng5 Zit3 |
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| Hokkien POJ | Toan-ngó͘-cheh Toan-ngó͘-choeh Toan-ngó͘-chiat |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Lóngchuánjié / Lóngzhōujié |
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| Hokkien POJ | Gō͘-go̍eh-cheh / Gō͘-ge̍h-choeh Gō͘-ji̍t-cheh / Gō͘-li̍t-choeh |
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| Hokkien POJ | Bah-chàng-cheh / Bah-chàng-choeh |
The Tuen Ng or Duanwu Festival, also often known, especially in the West, as the Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional holiday originating in China, occurring near the summer solstice. It is also known as Zhongxiao Festival (Chinese: 忠孝節; pinyin: Zhōngxiàojié), commemorating fealty and filial piety. The festival now occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional Chinese calendar, which is the source of the festival's alternative name, the Double Fifth Festival. The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, so the date of the festival varies from year to year on the Gregorian calendar. In 2014, it fell on June 2; in 2015, on June 20; and in 2016, it occurred on June 9.
The usual English name for the holiday, "Dragon Boat Festival," directly translates into two alternative Chinese names for the holiday, Lóngchuánjié and Lóngzhōujié.
The official Chinese name of the festival is 端午节 on the mainland and 端午節 in Taiwan,Hong Kong, Singapore and Macao. This is pronounced variously in different Chinese languages. In Mandarin, it is romanized as Duānwǔjié on the mainland and Taiwan; in Cantonese, it is romanized as Tuen1 Ng5 Jit3 on Hong Kong and Tung1 Ng5 Jit3 on Macao. All of these names (lit. "Opening the Seventh") refer to its original position as the first seventh-day (, Wǔrì) in the fifth month (, Wǔyuè) of the traditional Chinese calendar, which was also known as (Wǔ). Both the People's Republic and the Republic of China use "Dragon Boat Festival" as the official English translation of the holiday, while Hong Kong calls it the "Tuen Ng Festival" and Macao calls it "Dragon Boat Festival (Tun Ng)" in English and Festividade do Barco-Dragão (Tung Ng) in Portuguese.
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