China's Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which falls on June 9 this year.
Top 10 traditional dishes for the Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi are to the Dragon Boat Festival what eggs are to Easter or roses to Valentine's Day.
As the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu, draws near, people start to commemorate the death of Chinese poet Qu Yuan by colorful customs.
If the materials are available to you, it is quite possible for you to make zongzi at home; both for pleasure and maybe also to honor the great poet.
Apart from the Han people, there are twenty-six ethnic groups also celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival on there own ways. Here are 4 of them.
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