...........................
............................................................................................................................
This festival commemorates the dates of
Chu-Yuan, an accomplised poet and upright minister who
plunges to his death in a river about 2,500 years ago to
protest the corruption and misrule of his king, who had
banished him from the court. According to legend, upon
hearing his death, the local people rowed their boats out
on the river and dropped stuffed rice dumplings tightly
wrapped in bamboo laeves into the water to supplicate and
nourish his spirit or to distract animals from eating
his. 
@ Copyright by REGIT Sdn Bhd. All rights reserved