Dragon Boat Festival
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title:
Dragon Boat Festival
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The Dragon Boat Festival 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 holiday commemorates Qu Yuan who was the beloved prime minister of the southern Chinese state of Chu during the Warring States period, about 600 B.C. to 200 B.C., and is celebrated by holding dragon boat races and eating sticky rice dumplings called zongzi, which were southern Chinese traditio
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Chinese holiday
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Boat_Festival
date created:
2003-08-05T08:42:01Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T09:00:22Z
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