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Traditional Dragon Boat Festival celebrated across China

(People's Daily Online)    14:15, June 03, 2014
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People celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Taiwan on June 2, 2014.(CNS/Chen Xiaoyuan)

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional and statutory holiday originating in China. The festival now occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional lunar calendar, the source of its alternative name, the Double Fifth Festival. The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, so the date varies from year to year on the Gregorian calendar. The focus of most celebrations involves eating zongzi (sticky rice treats wrapped in bamboo leaves), drinking realgar wine (Xionghuangjiu), and racing dragon boats.


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(Editor:Zhang Qian、Huang Jin)

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