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This festival falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month (in June) to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan, a Chinese poet and statesman of the 4th century BC, who drowned himself in protest against political corruption. Fishermen raced in their boats to save him but they were too late. The people made glutinous rice dumplings with savory meat filling wrapped in bamboo leaves called bah chang and threw them in the river to distract the fish from eating his body. Since then, on the anniversary of his death, this gesture has been re-enacted with a boat race - now called 'The World Invitational Dragon Boat Race' - in Marina Bay, in which teams from all over the world compete. Stalls around the bay sell rice dumplings and souvenirs.
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