The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month in the chinese calendar .It has a history of more than 2,000 years . The origin of this summer festival is mainly to commerate a government offical named Qu Yuan.
He was a good and respected man ,but because of the misdeeds of jealous rivals he was banished by the king ,and finally he threw himself into the Mi Luo river.Chinese people threw into the water dumpling made of rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves on the day .Therefore the fish would eat the rice rather than the hero poet.
Now it turned into the custom of eating Zong Zi.The main event of the festival is the Dragon Boat Race.
2013-06-11
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