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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 ...
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 Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival is an annual festival of dragon boat races in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Begun in 1994, the festival attracts 5,500 paddlers, 200 teams and over 75,000 spectators from all around the world. It is one of the largest dragon boat festivals in North America.
The city’s iconic dragon-boat community just had its hopes sunk, ... 2024 at 11:55 AM. ... It will host the 34th annual Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in August, with organizers promising that ...
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 ...
In addition to providing audiences with traditional Chinese foods and performances, the festival, now in its 18th year, hosts over 150 dragon boat teams from across North America, making it one of the largest dragon boat festivals in the United States. Depending on the competitive division, teams compete for cash prizes or airline tickets.
An associated festival highlights Asian and other cultures in Toronto. It has been acknowledged as a prominent cultural occasion in Toronto, fostering heritage and arts. Typically, more than 5,000 athletes take part in the traditional dragon boat race, accompanied by over 80 local artists, artisans, and heritage performers.
Dragon boat racing has been practiced continuously since this period as the basis for annual water rituals and festival celebrations, and for the traditional veneration of the Chinese dragon water deity. The celebration was an important part of the ancient Chinese agricultural society, celebrating the summer rice planting.