Duanwu Festival Today is Chinese Festival-Duanwu Festival. It is for a great patriotic poet, Quyuan. He loved his country, but the King did not trust him and disgraced him. He suicided this day thousand years ago. People mourned his death and made this Festival. It is kind of sad, but it become some happy hours by eating some traditional food (zongzi-Chinese rice-pudding) for modern Chinese.