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Dragon Boat Festival often known as Tuen Ng Festival or Duan Wu Festival isa traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of theChinese calendar。 It is also known as the Double Fifth。[citation needed] It hassince been celebrated in various ways in other parts of East Asia as well， mostnotably Korea。

The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear but one traditional view holdsthat the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan of the Warring StatesPeriod。 He mitted suicide by drowning himself in a river because he wasdisgusted by the corruption of the Chu government。 The local people knowing himto be a good man decided to throw food into the river to feed the fishes toprevent them from eating Qus body。 They also sat on dragon boats and tried toscare the fishes away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and thefierce looking dragon-head in the front of the boat。