5月5日什麼節?(english)

Japanese Children's day
[edit] Japan
May 5 is Children's Day, called こどもの日 ("Kodomo no hi", こどもの日?) in Japanese; the festivities is also called Boy's Day , called 端午の節句 (Tango no Sekku, 端午の節句?) in Japanese , to distinguish it from Girls' Day, called 桃の節句 (Momo no Sekku, 桃の節句?), ひな祭り (Hinamatsuri, ひな祭り?) in Japanese , March 3).
The day is marked with a lot of activities for children.

For lunar 5月5日 ， it's the dragon boat festival :
Duanwu Festival (端午節, Duānwū Jié) is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. It is also known as the Double Fifth.[citation needed] It has since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts of East Asia as well. In the West, it's commonly known as Dragon Boat Festival.
The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan (c. 340 BC-278 BC) of the Warring States Period. He committed suicide by drowning himself in a river because he was disgusted by the corruption of the Chu government. The local people, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the fish so they would not eat Qu's body. They also sat on long, narrow paddle boats called dragon boats, and tried to scare the fish away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking carved dragon head on the boat's prow.
In the early years of the Chinese Republic, Duan Wu was also celebrated as "Poets' Day," due to Qu Yuan's status as China's first poet of personal renown.
Today, people eat bamboo-wrapped steamed glutinous rice dumplings called zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fish) and race dragon boats in memory of Qu's dramatic death.

如是國曆應該沒有任何節日
但如是農曆可是有端午節

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There are many festivals on 5th May in different years, they are included:

Mexico and the United States: Cinco de Mayo (1862).
International Midwives Day.
International Totse Day.
Council of Europe: Europe Day.
CPLP - Community of Portuguese-speaking countries: Day of the Lusophone.
Albania: Martyrs' Day.
Denmark: Liberation Day (1945).
Ethiopia: Liberation Day (1941).
Guyana: Indian Immigration Day (1838).
Hong Kong, Macau, South Korea and Taiwan (2006): Buddha's Birthday.
Japan: Tango no Sekku (Boy's Day) or Kodomo no hi (Children's Day).
The Netherlands: Liberation Day (1945).
Northern Territory, Australia: May Day.
South Korea: Children's Day.

You could find out the details of the individual festival you want to know in wikipedia or ask me!

2007-05-07 18:41:20 補充：
Cinco de Mayo ("The Fifth of May" in Spanish) is primarily a regional, and not a federal, holiday in Mexico; the date is observed in the United States and other locations around the world as a celebration of Mexican heritage and pride.

2007-05-07 18:41:45 補充：
International Midwives' Day was first celebrated May 5, 1991, and has since been observed in over 50 nations around the world.

2007-05-07 18:42:54 補充：
The Council of Europe has celebrated its founding on 5 May 1949 as "Europe Day" since 1964.

2007-05-07 18:43:29 補充：
Martyrs' Day is a Panamanian holiday which commemorates the January 9, 1964 riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone.

2007-05-07 18:43:57 補充：
Liberation Day is a day, often a public holiday, that marks the liberation of a place, similar to an independence day.

2007-05-07 18:44:44 補充：
Buddha's Birthday (Traditional Chinese: 佛誕; pinyin: fó dàn; Cantonese: fātdáahn), the birthday of the Gautama Buddha traditionally celebrated in East Asia on the eighth day of the fourth month in the Chinese lunar calendar.

2007-05-07 18:45:10 補充：
Kodomo no hi (こどもの日;こどものひ; meaning "Children's Day") is a Japanese national holiday which takes place annually on May 5, the fifth day of the fifth month, during the Golden Week period. It is a day set aside to respect children's personalities and to celebrate their happiness.

2007-05-07 18:46:48 補充：
In both Queensland and the Northern Territory the holiday is on the first Monday in May itself. ("May Day").

May 5 is Children's Day, called こどもの日 ("Kodomo no hi", こどもの日?) in Japanese; the festivities is also called Boy's Day , called 端午の節句 (Tango no Sekku, 端午の節句?) in Japanese , to distinguish it from Girls' Day, called 桃の節句 (Momo no Sekku, 桃の節句?), ひな祭り (Hinamatsuri, ひな祭り?) in Japanese , March 3).

The day is marked with a lot of activities for children.

Every year May 5 is Japan's child festival. Although in the name is the child festival, in the essence is the boy festival. This day has boy's family to be able to be hanging the carp flag in the outdoors perhaps places the warrior hard helmet, the clock portrait in the home and so on implores the boy health growth. This day also is the Japanese gold vacation last day, very many people use this once a year long vacation whole family to the journey abroad. Is daughter festival OPPOSITE

Chinese Lunar Dragon Boat Festival...(農曆端午節)