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Eating dumplings is what holiday

Eating rice dumplings is the Dragon Boat Festival.

Duanwu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year, also known as the Duanyang Festival, Wuzhi Festival, May Festival and so on. "The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's national holidays and has been inscribed on the World Intangible Cultural Heritage List.

Duanwu Festival originated in China, initially the Chinese people to get rid of disease and epidemic prevention of the festival, Wu Yue land before the Spring and Autumn Period in the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in the form of a dragon boat race held in the tribal totem sacrifices; after the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it has become a traditional Chinese festival to commemorate the Qu Yuan. Duanwu Festival have eaten zongzi, drink xionghuang wine, hanging calamus, artemisia, moxa, fumigation Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, the custom of dragon boat racing.