The Dragon Boat Festival Next monday is our Chinese troditional festival, the Dragon Boat Festival. It is also called Rice Food Festival in some places as the food we eat on that day are made of glutinous rice. We named the food as Zongzi. It's a pyramid-shaped dumpling wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. This traditional festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar. It commemorates the famous ancient Chinese poet QuYuan. On this day we Chinese eat and prepare Zonezi,drink realgar wine, and race dragon boat. If you want to see this, welcome to China!