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College students make sachets ahead of Dragon Boat Festival

Wild animals eat zongzi for upcoming festival

Dragon Boat Festival tradition: Children wearing sachets

Eating duck eggs: a tradition of Chinese Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival customs in Zigui, birthplace of Chinese poet Qu Yuan

Chinese Festivals: the Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival marked around China

Dragon Boat Festival holiday sees brisk tourist traffic

Tourism was bouyant for the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, with excursions to suburban areas being the most popular choice for Chinese travelers, said the China National Tourism Administration (CNTA).
Chinese Festivals: the Dragon Boat Festival

There are dragon boats in the river, people cheering on the shore, and delicious Zongzi on the dining table. What are these for?

Origin

The Dragon Boat Festival has had a history of over 2,000 years. There are many legends about the evolution of the festival, the most popular of which is in commemoration of Qu Yuan (340-278 BC).

Customs

Zongzi

Zongzi is an essential food of the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that people ate them in the Spring and Autumn Period (770-476 BC).

Salted duck eggs

Pepople also eat salted duck eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Realgar wine

It is a very popular practice to drink this kind of Chinese liquor seasoned with realgar at the Dragon Boat Festival.

Foods

Tourism

Guangxi

Pupils wearing traditional costumes write Chinese calligraphy at the Liuyongfu Square in Qinzhou, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, June 6, 2016.
Inner Mongolia

Pupils of the Ethnic Experiment Primary School make sachets shaped like Zongzi to greet the incoming festival in Hohhot, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
Jiangxi

Dragon boat teams compete on the Fairy Lake in Xinyu City, east China's Jiangxi Province, June 5, 2016.