duanwu festival (端午节, duānwū jié) is a traditional chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the chinese calendar. it is also known as the double fifth.[citation(引用;引证) needed] it has since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts of east asia as well. in the west, it‘s commonly known as dragon boat festival.
the exact origins of duan wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the chinese poet qu yuan (c. 340 bc-278 bc) of the warring states period. he committed suicide by drowning himself in a river because he was disgusted by the corruption of the chu government. the local people, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the fish so they would not eat qu‘s body. they also sat on long, narrow paddle boats called dragon boats, and tried to scare the fish away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the fierce looking carved dragon head on the boat‘s prow(船头).
in the early years of the chinese republic, duan wu was also celebrated as "poets‘ day," due to qu yuan‘s status as china‘s first poet of personal renown(名声名望).
today, people eat bamboo-wrapped steamed glutinous(粘的) rice dumplings called zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fish) and race dragon boats in memory of qu‘s dramatic death.
正在阅读:
端午节作文500字:传统节日07-18
风扇作文150字_风扇作文09-20
梦的色彩作文07-15
读《红岩》有感600字07-17
给一线医护人员的一封信作文600字05-26
那一幕,又上心头07-17
平凡中的大喜悦作文600字07-16
诗歌之美作文800字07-28
搞怪大王陈佳辉作文450字07-16
关于描写雨的作文题目07-18
微型调研报告写作方法1200字07-17