Every 5th of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, this year is 25th June. We hope all the customer a Happy Dragen Boat Festival .

The Dragon Boat Festival, the Spring Festival, the Ching Ming Festival, and the Mid-Autumn Festival are also known as the four traditional Chinese festivals. The origin of the ancient festival is closely related to the ancient culture. It is said that the Dragon Boat Festival originated from the celestial worship and evolved from the dragon totem sacrifice in the ancient times.

The first record of the origin of the dragon boat appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the practice of dragon boat racing prevailed in country Wu, Yue and Chu.

Regarding the custom of eating sticky rice dumplings, what is known by the public is to commemorate Qu Yuan.

Qu Yuan, the minister of King Chu Huai during the Spring and Autumn Period, was also a poet. In 278 B.C., the Qin Army conquered the capital of Chu. Qu Yuan saw that his motherland was invaded, and his heart was pierced, but he could not bear to abandon his motherland. On May 5th, after writing his Swan song “Thoughts Before Drowning”, he jump into the Miluo River to death, with his own life Composed a magnificent patriotic movement.

It is said that after the death of Qu Yuan, the people of Chu state grieved abnormally, and they rushed to the side of Miluo River to memory Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed up the boat and salvaged his body on the river. A fisherman took out the rice balls, eggs and other food prepared for Qu Yuan, and threw them into the river. They said that the fish, lobsters and crabs were full, and they would not bite Dr. Qu’s body. People followed suit after seeing them.

After then, on the fifth day of May every year, there was a custom of dragon boat racing, eating dumplings; in this way, the patriotic poet Qu Yuan was commemorated.