It is June 7th (The fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese lunar calendar)Morning in China now ! 😊

As a Chinese, I want to tell u that today is one of the China's traditional festival——Dragon  Boat  Festival .

In this topic ,I want to  Discuss  this Festival , share  our culture With  you and view what you think  about Dragon Boat Festival😁

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, also called Chinese Lunar Calendar Double Five Festival, has its history and culture and customs( including vacation)

·History  

    There are many stories about the origin of Dragon Boat Festival in Chinese history. But the Chinese people generally believe that the festival was established to memorize a Patriotic poet，QuYuan, who devoted him self into his country.

During the Chunqiu and Zhanguo period in Chinese history,Qu yuan, as a loyal minister of king huai of chu，was Envied by other servants.They spoke ill of him to the king, who listened to calumny and kept him far away from the court.He was still patriotic until one day when the state of chu was destroyed. He wrote his last poem with sorrow called " Huai Bi " and jumped into the river called MiLuo to commit suicide.

Local people heard the news boating rescue, but still can not find qu yuan's body. In order to express grief, people often paddle boats on the river, and later gradually developed into dragon boat RACES. In order not to spoil qu yuan's body with fish and shrimps, people threw rice balls into the river one after another. Later, there was the custo