{"id":6520,"date":"2019-11-21T02:28:01","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/?p=6520"},"modified":"2019-11-21T02:37:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T02:37:42","slug":"traditional-chinese-festivals-dragon-boat-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/traditional-chinese-festivals-dragon-boat-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Traditional Chinese Festivals  &#8211;  Dragon Boat Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div style=\"padding:4px;\"><span>  <\/p>\n<p>The Dragon Boat Festival, also named &quot;Cho<em><\/em>ngwu  Festival&quot;, &quot;Calamus Festival&quot; or &quot;Daughter&#8217;s Festival&quot;, takes place in  May 5 in the lunar calendar. It is a folk festival widely passed down  with a history of over two thousand years, and one of the most im<em><\/em>portant  festivals as well. There are various celebrating activities on the day  of Dragon Boat Festival, among which eating rice dumplings (zongzi, the  steamed glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves) and dragon boat race  are im<em><\/em>portant customs.<\/p>\n<p>There are many legends on the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.  Some people say it is to commemorate the poet Qu Yuan, while some people  think it is to memorialize Wu Zixu, a famous official in the Warring  States Period, still there are some others regarding May 5 in the lunar  calendar as the date when the Wuyue people held a memorial totem  ceremony in ancient times. However, the legend on Qu Yuan is the most  widely spread. People praise highly the lofty sentiment and outstanding  talent toward this patriotic poet and take more pity on the finale that  he drowned himself in a river. In the mind of most Chinese people, the  co<em><\/em>nventions of eating rice dumplings and Dragon Boat Race in the  Festival are all closely related to the commemoration of Qu Yuan.  Besides, there are also different co<em><\/em>nventions like drinking realgar wine  and wearing sachet.<\/p>\n<p>  <\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-3261030312\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dragon Boat Festival, also named &quot;Chongwu  Festival&quot;, &quot;Calamus Festival&quot; or &quot;Daughter&#8217;s Festival&quot;, takes place in  May 5 in the lunar calendar. It is a folk festival widely passed down  with a history of over two thousand years, and one of the most important  festivals as well. There are various celebrating activities on the day  of Dragon Boat Festival, among which eating rice dumplings (zongzi, the  steamed glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves) and dragon boat race  are important customs.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[135,117],"class_list":["post-6520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-traditional-chinese-festivals","tag-traditional-chinese","tag-traditional-chinese-festivals"],"views":313,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}