The Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month of each year in China, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Noonday Festival, May Festival, etc.; the Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival to commemorate Qu Yuan. Kaoru Atractylodes, Radix Angelicae Dahurica, the custom of drinking realgar wine. "Dragon Boat Festival" is one of China's national legal holidays and is included in the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.
Dragon boat racing is an indispensable part of the Dragon Boats Festival, held all over the country. Dragon boats look like Chinese dragons. A team of people rows a dragon boat together. At the front of the boat, one team member beats a drum to encourage his teammates. It is said that the winning team will bring luck and happiness to the people of their village.
One of the customs of the China Dragon Boat Festival is eating Zongzi which is a kind of food made with sticky rice and is wrapped with reed or bamboo leaves. It has different shapes and fillings. In the northern part of China, people use red jujube as fillings. But in the southern part of China, people use beans, fresh meat, or egg yolk as fillings.
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