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2021年1月11日发(作者：靳夕)
小学六年级英语作文：关于端午节英语作文
Dragon Boat Festival， often known as Tuen Ng Festival or
Duan Wu 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.[citation needed] It has since
been celebrated， in various ways， in other parts of East Asia
as well， most notably Korea.
The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear， but one
traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the
Chinese poet Qu Yuan 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 fishes to prevent them from eating Qu's body.
They also sat on dragon boats， and tried to scare the fishes
away by the thundering sound of drums aboard the boat and the
fierce looking dragon-head in the front of the boat.
In the early years of the Chinese Republic， Duan Wu was
also celebrated as ， due to Qu Yuan's status as
China's first poet of personal renown.
Today， people eat zongzi (the food originally intended to
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