The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duan Yang Festival and the Double Fifth Festival, is traditionally believed to be the day that Qu Yuan, one of China's great ancient poets and one of the world's four great cultural celebrities, drowned himself in the Miluo River as an act of patriotism. The Dragon Boat Festival is an old Chinese tradition that has lasted for over two thousand years. Why do Chinese people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival? There are many legends surrounding this tradition, and the most famous one is that it commemorates Qu Yuan, a great national poet in Chinese history...