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Dragon Boat Festival (June)

Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese Lunar Calendar. It marks the death of a Chinese patriot scholar named Qu Yuan who drowne in a river in 296 BC. Fisherman threw rice wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river so that the fish would eat the rice instead of Qu Yuan's body. Today, bak chang (dumplings stuffed with meat, chestnuts and mushrooms) among other dishes, are eaten in his memory during the month leading up the festival.