Introduce the origin of Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival in English.

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Problem description:

Qu Yuan is a native of Chu State ...

Analysis:

Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, usually called Dragon Boat Festival or Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional festival in China held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in China. It is also called double five. Since then, other parts of East Asia have also celebrated this festival in various ways, especially North Korea.

The exact origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is not clear, but a traditional view holds that this festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan, a poet in China during the Warring States Period. He threw himself into the river because he hated the corruption of the Chu government. The local people knew that he was a good man and decided to throw food into the river to feed the fish to prevent them from eating Qu's body. They are still sitting on the dragon boat, trying to scare away the fish through the thunderous drums and the fierce dragon head in front of the boat.

In the early years of the Republic of China, the Dragon Boat Festival was also called "Poet's Day" because Qu Yuan was the first poet with personal prestige in China.

Today, people eat zongzi (originally used to feed fish) and race dragon boats to commemorate Qu's dramatic death.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Mid-Autumn Festival (traditional Chinese: Mid-Autumn Festival, simplified Chinese: Mid-Autumn Festival; Pinyin: Zhō ngqiū jié Taiwanese: tiaogchiu Cantonese: Dzong1tsau1; Korean: Chuseok or Chuseok/ Qiu; Japanese: Tsukimi/つきみ; Vietnam t? T Trung Thu is also called Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Cake Festival, or Mid-Autumn Festival in August. In Malaysia and Singapore, it is sometimes called Lantern Festival, which is similar in name to the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year. It is a popular festival in Asia to celebrate prosperity and reunion, dating back to the Zhou Dynasty in China more than 3,000 years ago.

In many East Asian lunar calendars, this festival is 15 (usually in the middle or late September of Gregorian calendar), which is a full moon day around the autumnal equinox. At this time, the moon is the roundest and brightest, marking an ideal time to celebrate the summer harvest. The traditional food of this festival is moon cakes. There are many different kinds of moon cakes.

Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the most important festivals in the lunar calendar (the other is the Lunar New Year), which is a legal holiday in some countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvest season on this day. Traditionally, on this day, Asian family members and friends get together to enjoy the bright Mid-Autumn Moon and eat moon cakes, carambola and grapefruit. It is also common to barbecue outdoors under the moon and put grapefruit skin on your head. Children often walk around with bright lanterns. With the celebration, some special customs have appeared in different parts of the country, such as burning incense, planting sweet olive trees, lighting lanterns on towers and dancing dragons. Before the Mid-Autumn Festival, shops selling moon cakes usually show photos of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon.