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Topic: Dragon Boat Festival

Does Brazil have Dragon Boat Festival?

Not observed here

There is no Duanwu in Brazil. The nationwide holidays are the seven dates fixed by Law 662 of 1949 plus 12 October added by Law 6.802 of 1980; the remaining religious days are handed by Law 9.093 of 1993 to the municipalities, capped at four. That structure has no place for a lunar calendar, and even getting in at the local level would mean pushing something out of those four slots. Dragon boating here is a rowing discipline run by sports clubs, not a day on the calendar.

What is this topic?

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a public holiday in both Taiwan and mainland China, while Japan moved the same 'fifth of the fifth' onto the Gregorian calendar and turned it into a statutory children's day. This page compares four things: who gets the day off, where the rice dumplings and the boats sit, how far local versions are listed as heritage in their own right, and how the day was re-defined in Japan as respecting a child's character while also thanking the mother.

Sources and dates

Dates follow local time zones, calendars, and official notices. Check the source when a date is estimated or locally variable.