The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the significant traditional holidays in China. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first. The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempt to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating rice dumplings.
English Chinese translation:
端午节是中国的一个很重要的传统节日之一。人们会以赛龙舟的比赛活动来庆祝端午节，参赛小组划着龙舟朝着鼓声前进，最终达到终点。在端午节赛龙舟的传统习俗是为了试图搭救爱国诗人屈原。他在公元前农历五月初五投河自尽。中国人如今把裹着竹叶的熟糯米丢入江中平息江中的蛟龙，希望他们不要将屈原吃掉。这后来演变成中国人在端午节吃粽子的习俗。
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