The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. People always eat rice dumplings and watch dragon boat races to celebrate it.
The festival is famous for its dragon-boat races, especially in the southern places where there are many rivers and lakes. It's very popular.
The rice dumpling is made of glutinous rice, meat and so on. You can eat different kinds of rice dumplings. They are very delicious.
One of the stories of the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is for mourn Qu Yuan (BC340-278), an honest minister, who had to suicide by drowning in a river.
Overall, the Dragon Boat Festival is very interesting!
Ms. Emily Jin