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The Dragon Boat Festival is a lunar holiday, occurring on the fifth day of

the fifth lunar month

The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in

China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is

celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their

boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.

The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to

attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth

day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo

leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the

rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating

tzungtzu and rice dumplings.

The celebrations is a time for protection from evil and disease for the

rest of the year. It is done so by different practices such as hanging healthy

herbs on the front door, drinking nutritious concoctions, and displaying

portraits of evils nemesis, Chung Kuei. If one manages to stand an egg on its

end at exactly 12:00 noon, the following year will be a lucky one.

At the end of the Zhou Dynasty, the area we now know as China had fallen

into a state of fragmentation and conflict. While the Zhou dynasty had ruled for

several centuries, several other states, originally feudal domains, tried to

carve out their own kingdoms. The state of Qin would eventually emerge the

victor and unify all of China under one rule for the first time in history.

Qu Yuan served as minister to the Zhou Emperor. A wise and articulate man,

he was loved by the common people. He did much to fight against the rampant

corruption that plagued the court-- thereby earning the envy and fear of other

officials. Therefore, when he urged the emperor to avoid conflict with the Qin

Kingdom, the officials pressured the Emperor to have him removed from service.

In exile, he traveled, taught and wrote for several years. Hearing that the Zhou

had been defeated by the Qin, he fell into despair and threw himself into the

Milou River. His last poem reads:

Many a heavy sigh I have in my despair,Grieving that I was born in such an

unlucky time.I yoked a team of jade dragons to a phoenix chariot,And waited for

the wind to come,to sour up on my journey

As he was so loved by the people, fishermen rushed out in long boats,

beating drums to scare the fish away, and throwing zong zi into the water to

feed braver fish so that they would not eat Qu Yuans body.

The Modern Dragon Boat Festival started from that time to this day, people

commemorated Qu Yuan through Dragon Boat Races, eating zong zi, and several

other activities, on the anniversary of his death: the fifth day of the fifth

lunar month.

Dragon Boat races are the most exciting part of the festival, drawing

crowds of spectators. Dragon Boats are generally brightly painted and decorated

canoes. Ranging anywhere from 40 to 100 feet in length, their heads are shaped

like open-mouthed dragons, while the sterns end with a scaly tail. Depending on

the length, up to 80 rowers can power the boat. A drummer and flag-catcher stand

at the front of the boat. Before a dragon boat enters competition, it must be

"brought to life" by painting the eyes in a sacred ceremony. Races can have any

number of boats competing, with the winner being the first team to grab a flag

at the end of the course. Annual races take place all over China, Hong Kong,

Macao, Taiwan, and other overseas Chinese communities.

Qu Yuan , an honest minister who is said to have committed suicide by

drowning himself in a river. Qu was a minister of the State of Chu situated in

present-day Hunan and Hubei provinces, during theWarring States

Period(475-221BC)(战国时期).

He was upright, loyal and highly esteemed for his wise counsel that brought

peace and prosperity to the state.

However, when a dishonest and corrupt prince vilified Qu, he was disgraced

and dismissed from office.

Realizing that the country was now in the hands of evil and corrupt

officials, Qu grabbed a large stone and leapt into the Miluo River on the fifth

day of the fifth month. Nearby fishermen rushed over to try and save him but

were unable to even recover his body.

Thereafter, the state declined and was eventually conquered by the State of

Qin.