The
Dragon Boat Festival started from a folklore. They say that there used to be a man named Chu Yuan. He was intelligent, patriotic, and brave. He tried his best to guide the emperor as a scholar, but the emperor just wouldn't listen, so as part of his protest, he drowned himself in the water. When people heard about it, they sympathized with him and tried to rescue the drowning hero. But after the search, they only failed to recover his body. So in desperate hopes, they use the drums to scare the fish so they wouldn't touch Chu Yuan's body. They threw in rice dumplings as a sacrifice and to commemorate Chu Yuan's loyalty and courage, hence, the Dragon Boat Festival was celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
