Chinese Traditional Festival—Dragon Boat Festival
Posted By Claire on June 24, 2012
When is it celebrated?
Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the 15th May of Chinese lunar calendar ( this year is 23th June, 2012).
Why Chinese people celebrate it?
The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. People celebrate it in memory of the patriotic poet Chu Yuan.
What do people do on this day?
For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating rice dumplings wrapped to form a pyramid using bamboo or reed leaves and racing dragon boats.
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 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.
A pal encoraged me to look at this website, pleasant article, amazing read. keep up the particular pleasant work!
Nice work. I extremely like this idea. Let’s get this thing rolling.