Duanwu Festival is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. It is also known _______ the Double Fifth. It has been celebrated in various ways in _______ parts of East Asia as well. In the West, it’s _______ known as Dragon Boat Festival.

The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds _______ the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 278 B. C because of the corruption (腐败) of the Chu government. The local people, knowing him to be _______ good man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the fish _______ they would not eat Qu’s body. They also sat on long, narrow paddle boats called dragon boats, and _______ to scare the fish away.

In the early years of the Chinese Republic, Duan Wu _______ as “Poets’ Day,” due to Qu Yuan’s status as China’s first poet of personal renown (声誉).

Today, people eat bamboo-wrapped steamed glutinous rice (糯米) dumplings _______ zongzi and race dragon boats in memory of Qu’s dramatic ________.