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端午节习俗英文作文 The Dragon Boat Festival is a lunar 阴历holiday， occurring 存正on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month 农历史五月第五天 The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant 有意义的holiday celebrated 庆祝in China，and the one with the longest history 历史最悠久。 The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races 龙舟赛 in the shape of dragons. Competing teams 竞争团队 row their boats forward to a drumbeat 击古racing to reach the finish end first. The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs传统习俗to attempts to 试图rescue 搭救 the patriotic poet 爱国诗人Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned 溺死 on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves 竹叶 filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings棕子。 The celebration is a time for protection 防护 from evil邪恶and disease 疾病 for the rest of the year. It is done so by different practices such as hanging healthy herbs on the front door， drinking nutritious concoctions 营养品， and displaying 展示 portraits 画像 of evils nemesis邪恶报应，Chung Kuei. If one manages to 成功做…… stand 直立an egg on its end at exactly 12：00 noon， the following year will be a lucky one. Duanwu Festival 端午节, Duānwū Jié is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. It is also known as the Double Fifth.[citation引用;引证 needed] It has since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts of East Asia as well. In the West, its commonly known as Dragon Boat Festival. The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan c. 340 BC-278 BC of the Warring States Period. He committed suicide by drowning himself in a 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 food into the river to feed the