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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.


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.




Have you already eaten rice dumplings?How do you intend to celebrate this traditional festival?

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回复 1# xiaomeixin


    Happy Dragon Boat Festival to everybody in Tingroom.Wish you have a good day.

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回复 3# 莎莎dawn


    I have just eaten one.It's very nice.My aunt made it.

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回复 5# Sanmal


    I ate one for breakfast this morning.

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回复 8# lghmhw


    Don't you have rice dumpling to eat?

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回复 11# lghmhw


    You can buy one in the street.