Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were very sad and went to the river to mourn Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished him up on the river. The fisherman took out rice balls and eggs prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and then wrapping it with colored silk to make it develop into brown seeds.

2. Dragon Boat Festival On the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year, various folk activities, such as offering sacrifices to Qu Yuan, commemorating Wu Zixu, planting mugwort, hanging calamus, drinking realgar wine, eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, and eliminating the five poisons, all originated from the holiday custom of expelling toxin and avoiding evil spirits.