Chinese Dragon Boat Festivel Dragon Boat Festivel is a traditional festivel of China which held on the fifth day of the fifth mounth of Chinese calender. the exact origins of this festival are unclear. one of them holds that the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan who suicide himself by drowning himself in a river for he disgusted the corruption of Chu government. Local people think Qu Yuan was a good man and decided to throw food into the river to feed the fishes to prevent them from eating Qu's body. now people eat food "zong zi : and race drgon boat to memorializes Qu