端午节英语作文500字篇8

The Duanwu Festival, which is also called the Dragon Boat Festival, is anancient Chinese traditional festival, celebrated on the fifth day of the fifthlunar month. For thousands of years, various celebrating activities are held allaround the country. Eating zongzi and racing dragon boats are the most pertinentones, which are said to be in memory of Qu Yuan, a great poet. In some places,people spread realgar wine on the children in the hope of protecting them fromthe evil spirits. Many people consider May as an especially dangerous time fordiseases in a year, and therefore they hang moxa and calamus and things likethat around the doors to ward off evil and diseases and pray for good luck.