标题: The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival [打印本页] 作者: xiaomeixin 时间: 2011-6-6 10:34 标题: The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival is a lunar holiday, occurring on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month
The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first. [attach]11116[/attach]
The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings.
The celebration's is a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of the year. It is done so by different practices such as hanging healthy herbs on the front door, drinking nutritious concoctions, and displaying portraits of evil's nemesis, Chung Kuei. If one manages to stand an egg on it's end at exactly 12:00 noon, the following year will be a lucky one.
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Have you already eaten rice dumplings?How do you intend to celebrate this traditional festival?作者: xiaomeixin 时间: 2011-6-6 10:36
I ate one for breakfast this morning.作者: 练习者 时间: 2011-6-7 10:48
本帖最后由 xiaomeixin 于 2011-6-7 10:53 编辑
I ate five rice dumplings in(on) the Dragon Boat Festival that was(were) made by my mother.It is(They are) quite delicious that I took some back home and continue to eat today.作者: lghmhw 时间: 2011-6-7 20:28
stayed in the hostel,thought zongzi作者: Sanmal 时间: 2011-6-7 20:29