The Dragon Boat Festival
端午節 duan wu jie
午 is "noon"
節 is "festival"
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相關詞:
屈原 cyu yuan
粽子 zong zi:a pyramid-shaped mass of glutinous rice wrapped in leaves
龍舟競賽 loug zhou jing sai
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端午節 is a traditional festival in China.We celebrate this festival on the fifth day of May by lunar year.According to the history that there was a poet whose name is 屈原 cannot bear to stand idly by his country lost.Because of his suggestions cloudn't be adopt so he mopishly threw himself into river to commit suicide.People want to found his body so rowed the boat on river. In order to avoid the fish ate his body,people made 粽子 and threw it into the river. That's why the Chinese has package steamed rice dumpling and race dragon boat's custom.