1. The fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar is the Dragon Boat Festival. In China, the Dragon Boat Festival has a very long history and is also a very significant festival. People will celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival with a competition event of dragon boat racing, in which participating teams paddle their dragon boats towards the sound of drums and eventually reach the finish line.
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2, the Dragon Boat Festival's origin of the three legends
(1) to commemorate the quyuan:Qu Yuan is a poet and politician of the Warring States period, because of the advocate of political reforms, the noble ministers offended. Because he advocated political reforms, he offended the interests of the nobles and ministers and was ostracized and exiled. Finally, when Chu was defeated by Qin, Qu Yuan, overwhelmed by grief and indignation, jumped into the Miluo River and martyred himself, and the common people, in order to commemorate Qu Yuan, designated the day when he jumped into the river as the Dragon Boat Festival.
(2) In honor of Wu Zixu, a great general of the state of Wu: According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Zixu, a native of the state of Chu, led the Wu army to kill the capital of the state of Chu, and whipped the body of the dead King Ping of Chu into 300 pieces to avenge the killing of his father and brother. After Wu Zixu led the Wu army to destroy the state of Yue, the king of Yue, Goujian, took himself as a hostage in the state of Wu. Wu Zixu advised the king of Wu, Fu Zhai, to kill Goujian, but Fu Zhai refused to listen to him. Later, Fu-chai listened to the slanderous words of Dazai Bo, and sent a sword to Wu Zixu, who committed suicide. Before his death, Wu Zixu told his neighbors, "After I die, gouge out my eyes and hang them on the east gate of Wu Jing to see the Yue army enter the city to destroy Wu." Upon hearing this, King Fu-chai of Wu was furious and had Wu Zixu's body sunk in the Qiantang River on the fifth day of the fifth month. In order to commemorate him, the local people made dumplings and raced dragon boats on this day.
(3) To commemorate the filial daughter Cao E: According to legend, Cao E's father drowned in the river in Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao E searched for her father for many days, but she still could not find him, so on the 5th of May, 14-year-old Cao E threw herself into the river to look for her father, and a few days later, Cao E walked out of the river holding her father's body. In order to commemorate the filial piety of Cao E, the descendants made May 5 every year as a festival to honor her.