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Duan Wu Festival
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Duan Wu Festival is the fifth day of month five in East Asia lunar calendars. Festivals in different cultures on this day: Dragon Boat Festival in China, Kodomo no hi in Japan and Dano in Korea.

Duan Wu Festival or Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. It is also known as the Double Fifth. It has since been celebrated, in various ways, in other parts of East Asia as well. In the West, it's commonly known as Dragon Boat Festival.

The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds that the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan (c. 340 BC-278 BC) of the Warring States Period. He committed suicide by drowning himself in a river be