Dragon Boat Festival

Meaning

Proper Noun

• A Chinese holiday on Duanwu, the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar

Related

Similar words

• Double Fifth, Double Fifth Festival
• Duanwu, Duanwu Festival
• Tuen Ng Festival

Origin

• , an alternative name for from the races traditionally held on that day in southern China, now popularly connected with the legend of townspeople racing to throw zongzi into the Miluo River to preserve the body of the Chu poet and statesman Qu Yuan.