The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated (falls)on the fifth day of the fifthmonth of Chinese lunar calendar.
As one of the traditional Chinese festivals, it has been enjoying greatpopularity in honor of the Chinese great poet Qu Yuan living in the WarringStates Period. He committed suicide by drowning himself in Miluo River forpolitical reasons. The local people decided to throw a particular food called“Zongzi” into the river to prevent fish eating his body.
Today, people eat Zongzi, have dragon boat races and wear colorful threadsaround wrists to bring good luck. And now it has become one of the nationalholidays in China.