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Contestants take a rest during a dragon boat racing in celebration of the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival in Fengtai District of Beijing, Saturday May 23, 2009. The Duanwu Festival, or 'Dragon Boat Festival', was established in remembrance of Qu Yuan, a ministerial scholar and patriotic poet who committed suicide in the Miluo River during the Warring States period. The traditional celebrations include eating zongzi (pyramid-shaped snacks made of glutinous rice ball stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves), drinking realgar wine, and racing dragon boats. The festival date, reckoned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, drifts from year to year and falls on May 28th this year. [CFP]
Contestants vie in a dragon boat racing in celebration of the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, in Fengtai District of Beijing, Saturday May 23, 2009. [CFP]
Contestants vie in a dragon boat racing in celebration of the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, in Fengtai District of Beijing, Saturday May 23, 2009. [Xinhua]
A girl, all smiles, holds a bunch of zongzi, pyramid-shaped rice ball snacks, upon the coming Dragon Boat Festival in Jiaxing, east China's Zhejiang province, May 6, 2009. Zongzi is a traditional food the Chinese eat on the festival.[CFP] 【已有很多网友发表了看法，点击参与讨论】【对英语不懂，点击提问】【英语论坛】【返回首页】
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