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The Dragon Boat Festival (traditional Chinese: 端午節; simplified Chinese: 端午节; pinyin: Duānwǔ jié) is a traditional Chinese holiday that occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, which corresponds to late May or early June in the Gregorian calendar.
The performers of Da Shuhua will start working on the Dragon Boat Festival and every weekend of the second half of the year until the end of the Lantern Festival which marks the end of the Spring Festival. Eating zongzi (sticky rice dumpling) and racing dragon boats are also the traditional activities that people used to celebrate the festival.
The Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival is a legacy of Expo 86, where Vancouver's Chinese-Canadian community introduced the traditional annual Chinese Duanwu Festival (summer solstice) to Canada as a cultural outreach program to share Chinese culture with the city's multi-cultural population. The dragon boat festival was created to promote ...
Duanwu Festival (Dragon Boat Festival) 端午節 / 端午节 Dragon boat race, eat sticky rice wrapped in lotus leaves Zongzi . This festival commemorates the ancient poet Qu Yuan; drink yellow rice wine, related to the White Snake Lady legend 5 (五月) 13th July 3, 2020 [5] Kuan Kung's Birthday and Cheng Huang's Birthday 關公誕辰
The Guizhou Miao Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional folk event held every year by the Miao people in the Shibingtai River Basin of the Qingshui River in the southeastern part of Guizhou, China on the 25th day of the fifth lunar month after the Dragon Boat Festival. The local Miao people will row a canoe dragon boat on this day.
About 50 teams will take part in the annual dragon boat races at Lakeshore State Park on Saturday, Aug. 10. How to watch the 2024 Milwaukee Dragon Boat Festival: Race schedule, performances and ...
The city’s iconic dragon-boat community just had its hopes sunk, with a pier rehab forcing it out of Flushing Bay next summer — and potentially thwarting it for decades to come. The city Parks ...
The Dragon Boat Festival is held on Nam Van Lakes. A spectacular competition, it commemorates a 3rd-century BC court adviser who drowned himself in protest against a decision by the emperor to go to war with a neighboring state. Wat Yuen was said to have left behind a beautiful poem before jumping into the river.