DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL

•In China, this festival is popularly known as Tuen Ng or Duanwu Festival

•Celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar. (Georgian Calendar – June)

•The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as "Double Fifth Day".

Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Race

• Competing teams drive their colorful dragon boats forward to the rhythm of beating drums.

• Races can have any number of boats competing, with the winner being the first team to grab a flag at the end of the course

Dragon Boat Race

History

•Commemorates the death of the poet and minister Qu Yuan (340–278 BC) of the ancient state of Chu, who committed suicide by drowning himself in the MiLuo River.

•These exciting races were inspired by the villager's valiant attempts to rescue Qu Yuan from the MiLuo river

Activities

• Three of the most widespread activities for Duanwu Festival are :– eating (and preparing) zongzi, – drinking realgar wine, and– racing dragon boats.

Zongzi

•Traditional food for the Dragon Boat Festival

•This tasty dish consists of rice dumplings filled with meat, peanut, egg, beans, dates, sweet potatoes, walnuts, mushrooms, or a combination of both.

•They are generally steamed and wrapped in bamboo/corn leaves.

Zongzi

Origin of zongzi.

•When Yuan’s body could not be found, people dropped balls of sticky rice into the river so that the fish would eat them instead of Qu Yuan's body.

Other activities…

• Hanging up icons of Zhong Kui (a mythic guardian figure)

• Hanging mugwort and calamus

• Taking long walks

• Wearing perfumed medicine bags

Other activities…

A game of making an egg stand at noon.

“If you can balance an egg on it’s end at exactly 12:00pm it is believed that you will have good luck for the rest of the year.“

Why people love this festival?

•Delicious food

•Mind-blowing boat race event

People like this activity because taking this challenge can improve yourself by making you happier and have more confidence than before.

Saturday, June 20, 2015

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