Legend has it that the Dragon Boat Festival was in memory of the great patriotic poet Chiu Yuan (屈原), who commit suicide by drowning himself in the river on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. The custom of racing boats on the river on the Festival was also interpreted as simulating the saving of the Chiu Yuan’s corpus by scaring away aquatic animals, especially the crocodiles recognized as flood dragons (蛟龍). Later on because the relation bween the river water and his death, Chiu Yuan has been worshipped as ‘Water Deity the Honorable King’ (水仙尊王). On the Dragon Boat Festival, the Water Deity temples in Taiwan would offer sacrifices and ‘Tzung Tzu’ (rice dumplings wrapped in leave, 粽子) to Chu Yuan and hold dragon boat races.