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Duanwu Festival is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day ofthe fifth month of the Chinese calendar. It is also known as the DoubleFifth.[citation needed] It has since been celebrated, in various ways, in otherparts of East Asia as well. In the West, its commonly known as Dragon BoatFestival.

The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds thatthe festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan (c. 340 BC-278 BC) of theWarring States Period. He committed suicide by drowning himself in a riverbecause he was disgusted by the corruption of the Chu government. The localpeople, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw food into the river tofeed the fish so they would not eat Qus body. They also sat on long, narrowpaddle boats called dragon boats, and tried to scare the fish away by thethundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking carved dragonhead on the boats prow.

In the early years of the Chinese Republic, Duan Wu was also celebrated as"Poets Day," due to Qu Yuans status as Chinas first poet of personalrenown.

Today, people eat bamboo-wrapped steamed glutinous rice dumplings calledzongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fish) and race dragon boats inmemory of Qus dramatic death.