龙舟节英语作文

The dragon Boat Day is the festival in China which is celebrated on May 5th in the lunar calendar.We uaually eat sticky rice wrapped up in bamboo leaves on Dragon Boat Day in memory of one hermit named Qu Yuan in Chinese history, who is a poet and is respected because of his loyalty to his country.
There is a long story for the origin of the Dragon Boat Day, to make the long story short, people didn't want any fish to eat Qu Yuan's corpse after he jumped into a river to commit suicide, so they cooked a lot of sticky rice to feed the fish in the river. Referring to the reason for Qu Yuan to commit suicide, it is said, Quan Yuan couldn't do anything when his country was at the point of crisis, the king didn't accept his sincere advice.