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About its name
The Dragon Boat Festival is also called the Duanwu Festival. Since it is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese Lunar calendar, it earns another name — Double Fifth Festival.
Popularity
It is a popular and traditional festival celebrated by the Hans, Koreans, Mongolians, Huis, Yis, Bais, Miaos, Zhuangs and others, altogether 27 of the 56 nationalities in China.
And now the Asian people, including Japanese, Vietnamese, etc.
The origins of Dragon Boat Festival
There are a great many of legends about the origin of Dragon Boat Festival. The most popular theory of the origin of the festival is to rememver Qu Yuan. The story about Qu Yuan has been deeply rooted in Chinese culture and this festival, so it is definitely a very important factor for the origin of the festival.
The story of Qu Yuan
Qu Yuan was born about two thousand years ago in China. He loved his country very much. His job was to give advice to the king. The king always took his advice. However, the king died and the new king did not listen to him. Later, the new king lost a battle because he did not take Qu Yuan’s advice. The country was in danger. Qu Yuan was very sad. He jumped into a river and died. It was the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of that year. Today, people eat rice dumplings and have dragon boat races to remember him on that day every year.
This is said to be the origin of the present nation-wide custom, which is the common people’s expression of grief over Qu’s death.
