Dragon Boat Festival

Tomorrow is Dragon Boat Festival. Happy Dragon Boat Festival!

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Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanwu Festival, falls on the 5th day of the 5th month of the Chinese lunar year (June 8 this year). Duanwu is celebrated by eating zongzi and racing long, narrow paddle boats. Dragon boat racing is quite a spectacle, withdrums beating, colorful flags waving, and thousands of people cheering on both sides of the river. The races came about after the poet and patriot Qu Yuan drowned in the Mi Luo River and the people raced in the boats to try to save him.

Zongzi

Zongzi, a traditional food eaten on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival (June 8 this year). It is a pyramid-shaped dumping made for glutinous rice and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. Its taste varies greatly across China. Zongzi is often made of rice mixed with dates in northern China, while people in the south usually stuff zongzi with pork, ham, chestnuts and other ingredients, making them very rich in flavor.