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Photos of handwritten newspaper on why rice dumplings are eaten during Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, and is also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Noon Day Festival, the May Festival, etc. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of China's national statutory holidays and has been included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

The Dragon Boat Festival originated in China. It was originally a festival for the Chinese people to cure diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in the land of Wuyue, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month; later, due to the poet Qu Yuan's Death on this day has become a traditional festival for Chinese Han people to commemorate Qu Yuan; in some areas, there are also commemorations of Wu Zixu and Cao E.

During the Dragon Boat Festival, there are customs of eating rice dumplings, drinking realgar wine, hanging calamus, mugwort, moxa leaves, smoked atractylodes and angelica, and racing dragon boats.