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Dragon Boat Festival is a Traditional Chinese Festival. The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday (we worked) celebrated in China, and has the longest history. It is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish line first.

The boat races during the festival is a traditional custom in attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 BC. The Chinese now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. This is to allow the poet to eat the rice before the fish could. The custom now is the eating of Tzungtzu and rice dumplings.

The celebration is a time to protect yourself from evil and disease for the rest of the year. This is done by varying practices including hanging fresh herbs on the front door, drinking nutritious concoctions and displaying portraits of evils nemesis, Chung Kuei. If you manage to stand an egg on it's end at exactly 12 pm, the following year will be lucky!