The Origin Story
How did Qu Yuan die?
What is suicide?
How did the traditions come to be?
What is the story of Qu Yuan?
What is some common traditions during the holiday?
What is dragon boat racing and eating zongzi?
What job was Qu Yuan?
What is a poet?
What is the name of the giant wall that is 13,171 miles long?
What is the Great Wall of China?
Why did Qu Yuan leave his hometown of Chu?
What is exile?
How did Dragon Boat racing originate?
Who are the people trying to save Qu Yuan?
Is the dragon boat festival held in places outside of China?
Yes!
What is one poem that Qu Yuan wrote?
What is Chu Ci?
How many dynasties were there?
13
What did the people do to try and save Qu Yuan?
What is boating and throwing sticky rice dumplings?
How did Zongzi originate as a tradition?
Who are the people throwing zongzi at the water to protect Qu Yuan's body?
Where did modern dragon boating begin?
Where is Hong Kong?
Where did Qu Yuan live before exile?
What is state of Chu?
What was the name of the famous Chinese philosopher that founded Confucianism?
Who was Confucius?
What dynasty captured his hometown?
What is the Qin Dynasty?
How is the date decided for the holiday?
What is the lunar calendar?
True or false: The Dragon Boat festival occurs on the same day on the Gregorian calendar.
False!
From what year to what year did Qu Yuan live?
What is 340-278 BC?
What dynasty had the first golden age of China?
What was the Tang Dynasty?
What river did Qu Yuan drown himself in?
What is the Miluo river?
What do people believe the day brings?
What is bad luck?
What are the three "festivals of the living"?
What are the Dragon Boat festival, Chinese New Year, or Mid Autumn Festival?
Order these events in the right order:
1. Qu Yuan wrote Chu Ci
2. Qu Yuan was exiled.
3. Qu Yuan was born in 340 BC
4. Qu Yuan drowned in the river.
5. Qu Yuan served as an advisor to kings.
What is 3, 5, 1, 2, 4?
Who founded the People's Republic of China?
Who was Mao Zedong?