The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanyang Festival or Dragon Boat Festival, is one of the four major traditional festivals in China. Celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, it was inscribed on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List in 2009. Its origin is associated with commemorating Qu Yuan, a poet of the Warring States Period. Legend has it that locals rowed boats to rescue him and threw zongzi into the water to drive away fish, giving rise to customs such as dra
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