The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival
In China, Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is an important holiday and has a longest history. It is celebrated through a race using dragon shape boats. Challengers further row their boats to a drumbeat racing in order to be the first to arrive the finish line.
During the Dragon Boat Festival, the boat races are part of the customs and traditions in order to make an effort to save the nationalistic poet Chu Yuan who drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese are practicing throwing of bamboo leaves loaded with cooked rice into the water. Thus, the fish could eat the rice instead of the hero poet. This eventually became into the tradition of eating tzungtzu and rice ball of dough.
The celebration is a time for providence from evil and sickness throughout the year. So, it is done by the practice of hanging healthy herbs on the front door, drinking nutritious brew and displaying pictures of evil’s adversary, Chung Kuei. When a person handles to stand an egg on its end at exactly 12:00 noon, the succeeding year will give the person luck.
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