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2017年端午節英文小作文
Duanwu Festival (端午節, 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;引證) 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(船頭).
In the early years of the Chinese Republic, Duan Wu was also celebrated as
"Poets' Day," e to Qu Yuan's status as China's first poet of personal
renown(名聲名望).
Today, people eat bamboo-wrapped steamed glutinous(粘的) rice mplings
called zongzi (the food originally intended to feed the fish) and race dragon
boats in memory of Qu's dramatic death.