People across China celebrate Dragon Boat Festival
(chinadail.com.cn) Updated: 2015-06-21 16:39 Comments
Participants compete in a dragon boat race during the annual
Dragon Boat Festival at Aberdeen in Hong Kong, China June 20, 2015.
Duanwu Festival, also known as Dragon Boat Festival, is to
commemorate Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and minister of the ancient
state of Chu during the Warring States Period (475 BC-221 BC) in
the Chinese history, who drowned himself before his state fell to
the invasion of the enemy. Duanwu Festival will fall on June 20
this year. [Photo/Agencies]
Participants compete in a dragon
boat race during the annual Dragon Boat Festival at Aberdeen in
Hong Kong, China, June 20, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]
Participants compete in a dragon
boat race celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival in Taipei, Taiwan ,
June 20, 2015. [Photo/Agencies]
Participants compete in a dragon
boat race to mark the Dragon Boat Festival, in Harbin, capital of
Northeast China's Heilongjiang province, June 20, 2015. The Dragon
Boat Festival is celebrated annually on the fifth day of the fifth
month of the Chinese lunar calendar, which falls on June 20 this
year. [Photo/Xinhua]
Participants attend a contest to make "zongzi", a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, in Zigui county of Central China's Hubei province, June 20. [Photo/IC]
Foreigners learn how to make zongzi
at Happy Valley, an amusement park in Beijing, on June 20.
[Photo/IC]
Pupils wearing traditional
costumes read classic poetry in an event to learn Duanwu customs,
in Zigui county of Central China's Hubei province, June 20, 2015.
[Photo/CFP]
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