The Dragon Boat Festival was initiated by the patriotic scholar Qu Yuan who threw himself into the river.

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival, the Noon Day Festival, the May Festival, the AI ??Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Chongwu Festival, the Noon Day Festival and the Summer Festival. Although the names are different, the customs of people in various places to celebrate the festival are the same.

The Dragon Boat Festival is an old custom in my country for more than 2,000 years. On this day, every household hangs moxa leaves and calamus, races dragon boats, eats rice dumplings, drinks realgar wine, treats all kinds of diseases, and wears sachets.

Qu Yuan went abroad during the Warring States Period and was a very educated man. He served as an official next to the King of Chu and worked hard to advise and make the country prosperous. The King of Chu was bewitched by traitors and had Qu Yuan demoted and exiled. In exile, Qu Yuan heard that the capital of Chu was occupied by the enemy and the people were suffering, and he was filled with grief and anger. On the fifth day of May, he came to the Miluo River, held a big stone and jumped into the Miluo River. The people of Chu State were very sad when they heard the news that Qu Yuan had thrown himself into the river. With tears in their eyes, they rowed boats to salvage Qu Yuan and threw rice dumplings into the river to feed the fish, hoping that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. This is the origin of making zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival in May.