Every year the Chinese celebrate a traditional holiday on the 5th of the fifth month on the Chinese calendar, do you know what it is? The Dragon Boat Festival! This festival is celebrated to honor the memory of Qu Yuan, an ancient Chinese patriotic poet who drowned himself for his country. People would make Zongzi,\-a ball of cooked, sticky rice with fillings wrapped in a bamboo leaf-and throw them in the river to have the fish eat that instead of Qu Yuan. The fifth month is also considered an unlucky month, and that natural disasters and illnesses are common in this month, so people would put calamus above their doors because calami look like swords and have a strong smell of garlic and are believed to be able to keep the bad spirits away.
