Dragon Boat Festival is also called Duanwu festival, a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar.it will come on the 28 day this month in the Gregorian calendar, It is also known as the Double Fifth. It has since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts of East Asia as well. In the West, it's commonly known as Dragon Boat Festival.

There are many legends about the evolution of the festival, the most popular of which is in commemoration of Qu Yuan . He committed suicide by drowning himself in a river named Miluo River,  because he was disgusted by the corruption of the Chu government. The local people, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw  zongzi (pyramid-shaped glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves) and eggs  into the river to feed the fish so they would not eat Qu Yuan's body. They also sat on long, narrow paddle boats called dragon boats, and tried to scare the fish away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking carved dragon head on the boat's prow. Other thoughts are that after Qu Yaun committed suicide, that because the people loved him so much, they raced out to recover his body, and the races signify the boats skimming across the water to find him.