Duanwu Festival celebrated

By / 06-01-2017 / (Chinese Social Sciences Today)


A woman makes zongzi, glutinous rice and fillings wrapped with bamboo or reed leaves, in Guiyang, Southwest China's Guizhou Province, on May 28 to celebrate the Duanwu Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on May 30 this year. Celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the festival features such traditions as eating zongzi, racing dragon boats and drinking realgar wine.