The Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is a significant festival in Chinese traditional celebrations. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of lunar May. This holiday is to commemorate the death of Chyu Yuan, a well-loved poet of the fourth century B.C. Chyu Yuan drowned himself to protest his king’s despotic rule. The villagers respected him so much that they rowed their boats down the river and dropped chung-tze, rice dumplings, into the river to feed the fish, so the fish would not eat Chyu Yuan’s body. To celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, families do several things, like make chung-tze, hang the moxa herb, and watch the dragon boat race.