The origins of Qixi Festival and Dragon Boat Festival are as follows:

**Qixi Festival (Chinese Valentine's Day)**
The Qixi Festival, also known as Chinese Valentine's Day, is celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, usually in August. This festival is based on a romantic legend from the Zhou Dynasty over 2,000 years ago.
The story tells of a weaver named Zhen and a cowherd named Niu. They were destined to be together, but the celestial gods did not approve. They separated them with a vast river in the sky. However, on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the magpies would form a bridge for them to meet across the river. The Qixi Festival commemorates their love and the courage to pursue it.
**Dragon Boat Festival**
The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which typically falls in June. This festival has its roots in the 5th-century BC during the Warring States period.
The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is a story about a great patriotic poet named Qu Yuan. After being exiled and witnessing the fall of his state, Qu Yuan drowned himself in the Miluo River. Local people paddled out in their boats to save him, but it was too late. They threw rice dumplings into the river to keep the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body. To celebrate his spirit and courage, the Dragon Boat Festival was established.
The festival is marked by dragon boat races, eating zongzi (sticky rice dumplings), wearing perfume, and hanging calamus leaves and mugwort to ward off evil spirits. The dragon boat races are believed to be an attempt to imitate the search for Qu Yuan's body in the river.
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