Dragon Boat Festival, often known as Tuen Ng Festival or Duan Wu Festival, is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. It is also known as the Double Fifth.[citation needed] It has since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts of East Asia as well, most notably Korea.
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.
In the early years of the Chinese Republic, Duan Wu was also celebrated as "Poets' Day", due to Qu Yuan's status as China's first poet of personal renown.
Today, people eat zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fishes) and race dragon boats in memory of Qu's dramatic death.
龍舟節，端午節經常或端午節，是一種傳統的中國節日對中華歷5月5日舉行。它也被稱為端五。[來源請求]它已經被慶祝，以各種方式在其他地區以及東亞，尤其是韓國。
端午確切的起源尚不清楚，但一種傳統的觀點認為，節日來源在中國詩人屈原的戰國時期。他犯的河中溺死自己，因為他是由政府的腐敗深惡痛絕楚自殺。當地羣眾，知道他是一個好人，決定投身到河裏的魚的食物，飼料，以防止吃屈原的屍體他們。他們還坐在龍舟，並試圖嚇唬由船上和激烈的尋找龍在船頭頭戰鼓齊鳴聲中的魚了。
在中國民國初年，段塢也被“詩人節“慶祝，由於屈原作為中國的第一個著名的詩人的個人地位。
今天，人們吃粽子的曲的戲劇性死亡內存和龍舟比賽（原本打算飼料魚類的食物）。
