Dragon-boat Festival in 5th May(lunar calendar), it's very important festival in China. There are lots of legends about Dragon-boat Festival. The most famous one is about Qu yuan who was well-known great patriotic poet, therefore Dragaon-boat Festival also named "Poet Day".People will have 3 days for hoilday. At those time, people will dragon-boat racing, eatting Zongzi(a chinese tradition food made in glutinous rice with kinds of nuts and meat, covered by bamboo leaves), drinking wine mixed arsenic sulphide, and so on.
It' said Dragon-boat racing just because Qu yuan jumped into a river to commit suicide when he knew his country downfalled. So lots of people were boating Dragong-boats to pullQu yuan's body out of the water; Lots of people threw Zongzi into the river fill the fishes kept they didn't ate Qu yuan's body; drunk realgar wine kept wickedness away. People done thses things memorialize Qu yuan until now!
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