Celebrate Chinese Traditional Dragon Boat Festival
Celebrate Chinese Traditional Dragon Boat Festival
There is an exciting festival featuring intense paddle boat races in long, that is“dragon boat festival.” It’s held on the 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar calendar in China.
2300 years ago, a famous patriotic poet Qu Yuan drowned himself in the Miluo River. When locals learned that, they raced out in wooden boats, beating drums and splashing the water with their paddles on a desperate search and rescue mission.
Unable to find his body, they threw sticky rice balls into the water to scare off fishes,.
This is the story behind the boat races, and the inspiration for zongzi, the tasty glutinous rice delicacy that's eaten during the Dragon Boat festival.
