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The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival, set on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year. It is a festival to send away the five plague gods, drive away plagues, and pray for good fortune and evil spirits.
Legend has it that during the Warring States period, the Qin army broke through the capital of Chu State. Seeing his country being invaded, Mr Qu Yuan felt as if his heart was pierced by a knife, but he still could not bear to abandon his country. On May 5th, after writing his last work "Huaisha", and he ended his life into the river. Later generations also took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan.
After Mr Qu Yuan died, the people of the Chu state felt mourn exceptionally, the fisherman try to bring back the body of the Mr Qu Yuan from the river. They even prepare the rice ball, eggs and other foods and threw inside the river, so that the fish, lobster and crab would not bite Mr Qu Yuan’s body. An old doctor brought a jar of yellow wine and poured it into the river, saying that it was to make the dragon and water beast faint, so as not to hurt Mr. Qu Yuan.
Later, on the fifth day of May every year, there will be customs of dragon boat races, eating rice dumplings, and drinking yellow wine, in order to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
The above is the history of the Dragon Boat Festival.
On this Dragon Boat Festival, Adimis wishes you and your family happiness and health, and good luck is by your side!
Dragon Boat Festival!
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