Duanwu Festival celebrated in China

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

Duanwu Festival celebrated in China
Source: Xinhua| 2018-06-11 17:06:17|Editor: Yamei

Volunteers make zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, for the elderly persons of no family to celebrate the Duanwu Festival at a community in Zhenjiang City, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 11, 2018. (Xinhua/Shi Yucheng)

People attend a dragon boat competition to celebrate the Duanwu Festival in Wuhe County, east China's Anhui Province, June 10, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhou Jiandao)

Pupils make zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, under the direction of volunteers to celebrate the Duanwu Festival at Qianhe Primary School in Sidui Town in Guanyun County, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 11, 2018. (Xinhua/Wu Chenguang)

 

[bolo]

For the memory of Qu Yuan?

 

[Adam WANG SHANGHAI MEGA]

The Duanwu Festival, also often known, especially in the West, as the Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional holiday originating in China, occurring near the summer solstice. It is also known as Zhongxiao Festival (Chinese: 忠孝節; pinyin: Zhōngxiàojié), commemorating fealty and filial piety. The festival now occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional Chinese calendar, which is the source of the festival's alternative name, the Double Fifth Festival.[1] The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, so the date of the festival varies from year to year on the Gregorian calendar. In 2016, it occurred on June 9; and in 2017, on May 30.

 

[faithfulguy]

I’m hungry for some zongzhi. I like the ones with crashed peanuts with the oyster sauce.