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==In China==

==In China==

The origins of the tradition of dragon boat racing are traditionally associated with the poet Qu Yuan (340-278 BCE)<ref>James King, ''Beyond the Great Wave'', Bern: Peter Lang (2010), 51.</ref>, who, distraught at the corrupt state of his government, and having been banished, threw himself into a lake and drowned; the fishermen rushed out onto the lake in their boats, in an attempt to recover his body before it could be eaten by the fish. Thus the tradition of having dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth month was, supposedly, born.

The origins of the tradition of dragon boat racing are traditionally associated with the poet [[Qu Yuan]] (340-278 BCE)<ref>James King, ''Beyond the Great Wave'', Bern: Peter Lang (2010), 51.</ref>, who, distraught at the corrupt state of his government, and having been banished, threw himself into a lake and drowned; the fishermen rushed out onto the lake in their boats, in an attempt to recover his body before it could be eaten by the fish. Thus the tradition of having dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth month was, supposedly, born.

==In Ryûkyû==

==In Ryûkyû==