How do people try and fight disease and spirits over the Dragon Boat Festival period?
People wear perfumed medicine bags, hang mugwort and calamus plants on doors and windows and braiding five colors of silk onto the wrists of children.
Who is this great poet?
Qu Yuan
When is the Dragon Boat Festival this year?
June 22nd
What countries celebrate Dragon Boat festivals?
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan Philippines and even U.S.A.
Do you know where is the Dragon boat festival?
Taipei, Lukang, Tainan, Kaohsiung, etc.
What type of boat is this?
Dragon boat
What do you do on the Dragon Boat Festival holiday?
People watch Dragon Boats racing and eat sticky rice dumplings known as zongzi (粽子)
Who was Qu Yuan?
Qu Yuan was a Chinese poet and politician.
How did Qu Yuan die?
Qu Yuan drowned himself in Miluo River as a gesture of dying along with his motherland.
What do people do with eggs on dragon boat festival day?
Egg standing at 12 o'clock
What do people eat during the Dragon Boat Festival?
Zongzi
When is the Dragon boat festival on the lunar calendar?
Dragon Boat Festival is on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month.
What do they do with the dragon boats?
They hold a race
What are these?
sachets