The Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival is traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the lunar calendar.

The Dragon Boat Festival is remembered the death of the famous Chinese pote,Qu Yuan.

Qu Yuan drowned himself into the Milo River because the intrigues of his rivals exerted enough ill influence on the King that Qu Yuan soon found himself in disfavor.

When it was known that Qu Yuan had been lost to the river the local people began the tradition of throwing the cooked rice which wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river for their lost hero.

The local people began throwing the cooked rice into the river to feed the fishes in hope that Qu Yuan’s body would be spared.

The cooked rice wrapped in bamboo leaves later came to be known as rice dumpling.