Dragon Festival celebrates a civil servant whose suggestions for improving the country were ignored by the Chinese emperor. In despair, the civil servant jumped into a river and drowned. The local people so loved him that they made rice dumplings and threw them in the water for the fish to eat so the fish would not eat the civil servant's body. Here is a picture of a rice dumpling--rice wrapped around some meat and beans and then wrapped in a bamboo leaf. This one is tied with a bamboo vine. It was so elegant I took a picture. Many parts of Taiwan also have Dragon Boat races that originated in the search for the civil servant's body.
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