Tomorrow is the Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Festival), the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar.  It will be celebrated in China as a public holiday for the second time since 2008.

There are three things that should be done in the festival incluiding (preparing and) eating Zongzi (an angular rice ball wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves with red bean or vitelline filling), drinking realgar wine and racing dragon boats.  As for me, I like eating different kinds of Zongzi.

(The photo comes from the flickr under creative commons)

All of these activities taken place in the Duanwu Festival are used to express our griefs and admirations to Qu Yuan, a great poet in ancient China.

Of course, three holidays coming together in the Dragon Boat Festival will be the happiest thing to me.

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