The Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival,also called Double Fifth Festival,is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar.

This festival is to commemorate the death of QU Yuan,an upright and honest poet and statesman who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.

The most important activity of this festival is the Dragon Boat races. It symbolizes people‘s attempts to rescue Qu Yuan. In the current period, these races also demonstrate the virtues of cooperation and teamwork.Besides,the festival has also been marked by eating zong zi (glutinous rice).

Zong zi is made of glutinous rice stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. People who mourned 
the death of Qu threw Zong zi into the river to feed his ghost every year. 1.Have bamboo leaves watered.

2.Fill the boat shape with a few tablespoons of the soaked sticky rice. Top with a sprinkling of mung beans.

3.Add some smoked meat and shrimps.

4.Boiled them, first with big fire, then turn to small fire till rip.