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The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Double Fifth Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth moon of the lunar calendar. It is one of the most important Chinese festivals, the other two being the Autumn Moon Festival and Chinese New Year.
The origin of this summer festival centers around a scholarly government official named Chu Yuan. He was a good and respected man, but because of the misdeeds of jealous rivals he eventually fell into disfavor in the emperor's court.
Unable to regain the respect of the emperor, in his sorrow Chu Yuan threw himself into the Mi Low river. Because of their admiration for Chu Yuan, the local people living adjacent to the Mi Lo River rushed into their boats to search for him while throwing rice into the waters to appease the river dragons.
Although they were unable to find Chu Yuan, their efforts are still commemorated today during the Dragon Boat Festival.




Traditions


Dragon Boat race
Traditions At the center of this festival are the dragon boat races. Competing teams drive their colorful dragon boats forward to the rhythm of beating drums. These exciting races were inspired by the villager's valiant attempts to rescue Chu Yuan from the Mi Lo river. This tradition has remained unbroken for centuries.

Tzung Tzu
A very popular dish during the Dragon Boat festival is tzung tzu. This tasty dish consists of rice dumplings with meat, peanut, egg yolk, or other fillings wrapped in bamboo leaves. The tradition of tzung tzu is meant to remind us of the village fishermen scattering rice across the water of the Mi Low river in order to appease the river dragons so that they would not devour Chu Yuan.



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2008-11-09 21:25:15 補充：
Ay Taso
The time of year of the Dragon Boat Festival, the fifth lunar moon, has more significance than just the story of Chu Yuan.

2008-11-09 21:25:20 補充：
Many Chinese consider this time of year an especially dangerous time when extra efforts must be made to protect their family from illness. Families will hang various herbs, called Ay Tsao, on their door for protection.

2008-11-09 21:25:32 補充：
The drinking of realgar wine is thought to remove poisons from the body. Hsiang Bao are also worn. These sachets contain various fragrant medicinal herbs thought to protect the wearer from illness.

2008-11-09 21:27:29 補充：
for more details︰http://www.gio.gov.tw/info/festival_c/dragon_e/dragon.htm

端午節簡介Dragon Boat Festival introduces
Lunar calendar in May fifth day, is Chinese folk traditional festival - - Dragon Boat Festival, it is one of Chinese nation ancient traditional festivals. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month also calls the end five, 5th day of 5th month. In addition, Dragon Boat Festival also has many alternate names, for example: Midday festival, heavy five, dragon boat festival, bath blue festival, daughter festival, fifth day of the fifth lunar month, sacrificial, poet festival, Long Ri and so on. Although the name is different, but generally speaking, the regional people celebrate a holiday the custom with is more than different.
Crosses Dragon Boat Festival, has been the Chinese 2000 for many years traditional customs, because the region are general, the nationality is numerous, in addition many story fables, therefore has not only produced numerous different festival, moreover each region also has the being different custom. Its content mainly has: The daughter returns to the maternal home, hangs Zhong Kui to look like, welcomes the clever ship, to hide the noon, the placard noon the leaf symbol, is hanging the calamus, the Chinese mugwort, tours all the various illnesses, wears the sachet, prepares the domestic animal sweet wine, the match dragon boat, the martial arts contest, hits a ball, swings, spreads the realgar to the child, drinks the realgar wine, the calamus liquor, eats the five harmful things cake, the salted egg, the steamed rice dumpling and the seasonal fresh fruit and so on, besides has the superstition color activity gradually to vanish, other spread China until now regional and are close to various countries. Some activities, like the match dragon boat and so on, obtained the recent development, broke through the time, the region demarcation line, has become the international sports event.

2008-11-10 18:07:11 補充：
About Dragon Boat Festival's origin, view very many, such as: Commemorated Qu Yuan to say; Commemorated Wu Zixu to say; Commemorated Cao E to say; Resulted from three generation of summer solstice festivals to say;

2008-11-10 18:07:49 補充：
The wicked month wicked dates drove to evade said that the Wu month nationality totem sacrifice said and so on.The above said respectively, each its source.

2008-11-10 18:11:58 補充：
At this point, Dragon Boat Festival is still the grand holiday which in the Chinese people ten points are in vogue.