Dragon Boat Festival is a major Chinese festival celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Lunisolar Chinese calendar.

2. Dragon Boat Festival is a major Chinese festival
celebrated on the 5th
day of the 5th
month of the
Lunisolar Chinese calendar. This year, 2013, the festival
falls on June 23rd
. The festival day is recognized as a
public holiday in main land China. In the Republic of
China, the festival was also celebrated as "Poets' Day"
in honor of Qu Yuan, who is known as China's first
poet.

3. •Duanwu Festival
•Tuen Ng Festival
•Double Fifth
•Dragon Boat Festival
•Go-goech-cheh/Go-gehchoeh
•Go-jit-Cheh/Go-jit-choeh

4. Festival commemorates the life and death
of the famous Chinese scholar Qu Yuan .
The best known traditional story holds that
the poet committed suicide by drowning
himself in the Miluo River. People tried to
save him in boats. Every year, the boat
festival is celebrated to commemorate this
attempt at rescuing Qu Yuan.

5. •Dragon Boat Racing
•Preparing and eating zongzi
•Drinking realgar wine
•Hanging up icons of Zhong Kui
•Wearing perfumed medicine bags
•Making egg stand at noon
Zongzi
Realgar wine

6. •Taiwan
•Singapore
•Malaysia
•Japan
•Korea
•Vietnam

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