The Dragon Boat Festival， also called the Duanwu Festival， is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. This festival is to commemorate the death of QU Yuan， an upright and honest poet and statesman who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.

端午節起源於中國，是古代百越地區崇拜龍圖騰的部族舉行圖騰祭祀的節日，百越之地在春秋之前已有以龍舟競渡形式敬龍神的習俗。戰國時期的楚國詩人屈原也是在該日抱石跳汨羅江自盡，統治者為樹立忠君愛國標籤將端午作為紀念屈原的節日；個別地方也有紀念伍子胥、曹娥及介子推等說法。

Dragon Boat Festival（端午節）5th day of the 5th lunar monthThe Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating zong zi (glutinous rice（糯米）wrapped to form a pyramid using bamboo or reed leaves) and racing dragon boats.