Double Fifth (other)
The Double Fifth Festival can refer to one of several festivals held on the 5th day of the 5th month in the local lunisolar calendars within the East Asian cultural sphere, or Gregorian calendar for Japan. Including: * Dragon Boat Festival in Greater China * Tango no sekku in Japan * Dano (festival) in Korea * Tết Đoan Ngọ in Vietnam * Yukka Nu Hii is an annual festival of the Okinawa Islands of southwestern Japan, which is traditionally celebrated on the 4th day of the 5th month of the lunisolar calendar. Festival The festival centers on the traditional dragon boat (''haarii'', or ''haa ...

Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival ( zh, s=端午节, t=端午節, first=t, p=Duānwǔ jié, cy=Dyūnńgh jit) is a traditional Chinese holiday that occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, which corresponds to late May or early June in the Gregorian calendar. The holiday commemorates Qu Yuan who was the beloved prime minister of the southern Chinese state of Chu during the Warring States period, about 600 B.C. to 200 B.C., and is celebrated by holding dragon boat races and eating sticky rice dumplings called ''zongzi'', which were southern Chinese traditions. Dragon Boat Festival integrates praying for good luck and taking respite from the summer heat. In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved the holiday's inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, becoming the first Chinese holiday to be selected. Names The English language name for the holiday is "Dragon Boat Festival", used as the official English translatio ...
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Tango No Sekku
, also known as , originally referred to an annual ceremony held at the Japanese imperial court on May 5. It was one of the five annual court ceremonies called . Since the Kamakura period (1185–1333), when the samurai class seized power, has become an event to ward off evil spirits for samurai boys. Japanese armour, (helmets) and Japanese swords were displayed in houses from the Kamakura period to the Muromachi period (1333–1573). From the Edo period (1603–1867), were displayed in homes, (carp streamers) were hung in gardens. From this period, the custom of decorating houses with offerings on spread to the peasant and classes, and paper began to be displayed. Since the Showa era (1926–1989), miniatures of samurai armor have become more popular than samurai dolls. Until recently, was known as Boys' Day (also known as Feast of Banners) while was celebrated on March 3. In 1948, the government decreed this day to be a national holiday to celebrate the happiness of ...
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Dano (festival)
Dano (), also called Surit-nal (), is a Korean traditional holiday that falls on the 5th day of the fifth month of the lunar Korean calendar. It is an official holiday in North Korea and one of the major traditional holidays in South Korea. South Korea has retained several festivals related to the holiday, one of which is ''Gangneung Danoje, Gangneung Dano Festival'' (), designated by UNESCO as a "Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity". In the Mahan confederacy of ancient Korea, this was a day of spiritual rites and enjoyment with song, dance, and wine. Traditionally, women washed their hair in water boiled with Sweet Flag (), believed to make one's hair shiny. Women also put ''Angelica polymorpha'' () flowers in their hair out of the belief that its aroma would repel evil. People wore blue and red clothes and dyed hairpins red with the iris roots. Men wore iris roots around their waist to ward off evil spirits. Herbs damp with morning dew were once believed to cure stomachache ...
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Tết Đoan Ngọ
Tết Đoan Ngọ is the Vietnamese version of Chinese Duanwu festival (literally: Tết: festival, Đoan: the start/straight/middle/righteousness/just, Ngọ: at noon (from 11 am to 1 pm). Đoan Ngọ is the moment that the sun is the most near the earth and this day often is "The middle day of summer" (Hạ chí). In Vietnam, this day is also the death anniversary of National Mother Âu Cơ. Compared to Cantonese Chinese term "dyun eng" (which is duan wu in Mandarin Chinese) ngo/eng/wu all refer to the ancient Chinese calendar term: the seventh of the twelve Earthly Branches, which was a component for determining time based on a series of 60 years (just as today we refer to 100 year periods as centuries).) Ngo/eng/wu refers to the sun at noon. : Tết Đoan Dương (Dương: yang) - yang being sun : Tết Trùng Ngũ (Trùng: double, Ngũ: the fifth), : Tết Đoan Ngũ, Tết Trùng Nhĩ or Tết Nửa Năm (Nửa Năm: a half of a year) is a festival celebrated at noon o ...
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