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Dragon boat festival
Another festival, commonly called the Fifth Moon Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the lunar fifth month. The proper name for this festival was the Upright Sun Festival, but foreigners in China refer to it as the Dragon-Boat Festival.
The Fifth Moon Festival is also noted for its dragon-boat races, especially in the southern provinces, where there are many rivers and lakes. This regatta commemorated the death of Qu Yuan, an honest minister in the old days who was said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.

A dragon boat or "dragonboat" is a very long and narrow, canoe style human-powered boat now used in the team paddling sport of dragon boat racing which originated in China over 2000 years ago. While competition has taken place annually for more than 20 centuries as part of folk ritual, it emerged in modern times as an international "sport" in Hong Kong in 1976. Like