DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

The English language name for the holiday is Dragon Boat Festival, used as the official English translation of the holiday by the People’s Republic of China. It is also referred to in some English sources as Double Fifth Festival which alludes to the date as in the original Chinese name.

Duanwu (Chinese: 端午; pinyin: duānwǔ), as the festival is called in Mandarin Chinese, literally means “starting/opening horse”, the first “horse day” (according to the Chinese zodiac/Chinese calendar system) to occur on the month;however, despite the literal meaning being wǔ, “the [day of the] horse in the animal cycle”, this character has also been interchangeably construed as wǔ (Chinese: 五; pinyin: wǔ) meaning “five”. Hence Duanwu, the “festival on the fifth day of the fifth month.

LANGDAI here wishes you all have good festival during Dragon Boat Festival.