The Dragon Boat Festival (The Dumpling Festival)

"Dragon" "Boat"
On the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar year,
The dragon boat festival is celebrated with pomp and cheer,
It’s when daylight is the longest in the northern Hemisphere,
For it is the summer solstice or ‘mid-summer’ in East Asia.


"Dragon" "Boat Racing"

"Glitter Dragon" "Animated Dragon" "Dragon gif"
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It’s the moment, (they say) when male energy is at its peak, 
So it’s a good chance for a man to prove that he is not weak, 
The dragon being of masculine energy, its image they seek,
Soon dragon boats are ready for racing on a river or a creek.


"Chinese Deity"

The festival honors the poet Qu Yuan, who died in 278 BC,
His last masterpiece, ‘Embracing the Sand’ lives on in history,
That he drowned himself in an act of 

patriotism is a tragedy, 
"bakchang" "chang" "Zongzhi" "glutinous rice"The race is for the boatmen who searched for him desperately.

The special food is glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo leaves,
Mugwort leaves are strung on top of doors to ward off disease,
Perfumed pouches on children’s clothes is for evil to freeze,
 

A five-color silk thread on their wrists offers calm and peace.

"Dumpling Festival"
12 June 2013 

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