Mandarin Master Q&A 4 ┍.无常

The dragon boat festival 1.the dragon boat festival （端午节）is a lunar holiday, occurring on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month2.Dragon Boat Festival is China's traditional festivals, we can eat dumplings, dragon-boat race, the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the poet Qu Yuan.3.The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period. He committed suicide by drowning himself in a river because he was disgusted by the corruption of the Chu government. The local people, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the fishes to prevent them from eating Qu's body. They also sat on dragon boats, and tried to scare the fishes away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking dragon-head in the front of the boat.4.Today, people eat zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fishes) and race dragon boats in memory of Qu's dramatic death.Zong zi is a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped with bamboo leaves Northern zongzi is sweet which is filled with red dates or sweet been pasteSouthern zongzi is filled with meat, seafood or egg yolk