Those aboard threw sticky rice dumplings (zongzi) into the water, to dissuade fish from nibbling on Qu Yuan’s corpse. How dragon boat racing brought Leon Chan Yik-long and his dad closer ...

Dragon boat racing goes back over 2,000 years and commemorates the poet Qu Yuan, who drowned following ... locals threw rice dumplings, known as zongzi, into the river for the creature to eat.

Duān Wǔ Jié) is a traditional festival in China to commemorate the life and death of Qu Yuan. The legend goes that Qu Yuan served in high offices and wrote a lot of poetry about China while ...