A woman ties zong zi (rice dumplings) with straw for the Duanwu Festival in Kuala Lumpur, May 27, 2017.

The festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the traditional Chinese calendar.

It commemorates the death of Qu Yan, China's first-known poet, who drowned himself when his home state of Chu was invaded.