About Dragonboating |
| Qu Yuan was a poet, statesman and philosopher in the Ming Dynasty of ancient China. He drowned himself in the Mi Lo River to protest the corruption in the government. The local fishermen rushed out to save their champion, but were too late. To keep the dragons from taking his spirit they beat the surface of the water with their paddles, and to keep the fish from eating his body they threw rice dumplings into the water. To this day Dragonboat races around the world reinact this scene on the fifth lunar day of the fifth lunar month. |
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