端午节作文英语 duanwu festival is a traditional chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the chinese calendar
it is also known as the double fifth
it has since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts of east asia as well
in the west, it`s commonly known as dragon boat festival
the exact origins of duan wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the chinese poet qu yuan (c
340 bc-278 bc) of the warring states period
he committed suicide by drowning himself in a river because he was disgusted by the corruption of the chu government
the local people, knowing him to be a good man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the fish so they would not eat qu`s body
they also sat on long, narrow paddle boats called dragon boats, an