Ahfei, I corrected the first paragraph of your entry. The festival sounds very interesing!

A note: subject-number agreement...

---If your subject is plural, you add an "s". Ex: We eat some special foods. I have five books.

---If your subject is singular, you usually use an article before the noun. Ex: I ate a cookie. I went to the store.

Dragon Boat Festival

Today is the Dragon Boat Festival, it is a traditional Chinese festival . The Dragon Boat Festival occurs on fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar .

In China ,we called the “dragon boat festival is” “Duan Wu J ie ”(端午节). We eat some special foods , such as sticky rice dumplings and salty duck eggs . Generally , there are two kinds of sticky rice dumpling: savory dumplings and sweet dumplings. There is meat in savory dumplings and red beans or dates in sweet dumplings . Most southern people like savory dumplings; northern people like sweet ones.

About the origin of the festival, there are two versions. The official one is that in order to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan (屈原)，Qu Yuan was a famous scholar who lived in Chu . Chu was a powerful country in China more than 1000 years ago, the king of Chu loved to battle with other country , many peoples died in the wars, thus Qu Yuan jumped into Miluo river in order to ask the kind stopped the war. Although he failed, but all the people were affected by his death, they did many activities to commemorate him.

Another version said that the ancient people sacrifice the dragong god who lived in the river to pray for good life and harvest . I agree with the second verson .

There is a important thing you must remember, don’t said “happy dragon boat festival ” to your friends, because it is not a happy festival , you should wish safeness or health.

Thanks for your reading , I’m learning English and still looking for friend who is interest in Chinese. You can contact me on italki or via Skype. My Skype email is [email protected] . name is Peng Fei Wang.