ChienHaoH's Super Blog!: June 2008

Saturday, June 7, 2008

dragon boat festival

The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. 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 boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings.

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.

Dragon boat festival is a very good day, i love it, students always have holiday on that dat some time we have 3 days sometimes we have 1 day but still we have holiday so is good. Now i have one more holiday now i am gona do my PP and do some big project.

The Duanwu Festival is a Chinese traditional and statutory holiday. It is a public holiday in mainland china and in taiwan, where it is known as the "Duanwu Festival". It is also a public holiday in hongkong and macau, where it is known as Duen Ng Festival. Its alternative name in english is "Dragon Boat Festival", after one of the traditional activities for the holiday.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Boat_Festival