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Google Doodle Celebrates - Dragon Boat Festival 2023 | 22 June On your mark, get set, row! The Dragon Boat Festival is being celebrated with today's Doodle. This traditional event takes place on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Because of this, it is sometimes called the Double Fifth Festival. This holiday has been celebrated since the third century BCE. It remembers the life and death of the artist Qu Yuan. Today's Doodle is a yarn and cardboard copy of a Dragon Boat that was made by hand.  When Qu found out that the Chu State had lost, he was so sad that he jumped into the Miluo River. The story goes that people in the area rushed out in boats to try to find him and save him. When they couldn't stop the fish, they threw sticky rice cakes into the water. People say that this is why they eat zongzi, which are rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves to look like a pyramid, at the event. The dragon boat races may also come from this story because they show how the boat...