Dragon Boat Festival

by admin on May 31, 2009

Thursday May 28 2009 was Dragon Boat Festival or Duan Wu Jie one of thre three biggest holidays celebrated in China. It falls on the 5th day of the 5th month on the lunar calendar and is therefore also sometimes called the Double Fifth Festival. This festival is actually celebrated to mourn for a man who died more than 2000 years ago 278BC He was Qu Yuan a poet writer a patriotic officer

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