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Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

As one of the major traditional festivals in China, the Dragon Boat Festival has many folk customs and cultural activities. Ancient poetry records the customs of making 'zongzi', drinking realgar, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, and bathing in orchid soaked water. These unique folk activities help to pass down the traditioanl lifestyles of Chinese people from thousands of years ago.

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

The inheritor of the technique of building the dragon boat head paints the head of the dragon boat as the Dragon Boat Festival is approaching, at an intagible heritage center in Daoxian County, central China's Hunan Province, June 3, 2021. (Jiang Keqing/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 9, 2021 shows more than two thousand people carrying a 98.8-meter wooden dragon boat to celebrate the Dragon Boat Fesitival in Shibing County, Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China's Guizhou Province. It is known that Shibing wooden dragon boat was acknowledged as the world’s longest wooden dragon boat by the Guinness World Records in 2016. (Huang Xiaohai/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 13, 2021 shows 98.8-meter long dragon boat making its first launch on the Wuyang River in Shibing County, southwest China's Guizhou Province. (Feng Li/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 12, 2021 shows people training on a 62-meter-long steel dragon boat at the Dragon Boat Training Base in Zigui County, Yichang City, central China's Hubei Province. Zigui county is the hometown of the ancient patriotic poet Quyuan. This dragon boat is meticulously built to commemorate him, and can accommodate 120 people at the same time. (Zheng Jiayu/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 6, 2021 shows 23 dragon boat teams racing on the Xuanwu Lake in Nanjing City, east China's Jiangsu Province. (Gu Changwang/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

A dragon boat race is held at a water sports center in Xiamen City, east China's Fujian Porvince in welcome of the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, June 10, 2021. Eight teams formed by over 100 local firefighters join the competition. (Zeng Demeng/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 10, 2021 shows the 2021 Guangyang Intangible Heritage Dragon Boat Race held in Yinhu Village Reservoir, Nan'an District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. (Xie Guoqing/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 10, 2021 shows people watching a dragon boat race in Yinhu Village, Guangyang Town, Nan'an District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality. (Xia Shouan/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

The opening ceremony of the annual "Dragon Boat Festival Cultural Festival" is held in Zigui County, central China's Hubei Province, June 11, 2021. The cultural festival will last for one month. (Huang Shanjun/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 9, 2021 shows kids from the No. 1 Kindergarten in Ganzhou District, Zhangye City, northwest China's Gansu Province doing dragon boat friendship competition on land. (Wang Jiang/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 10, 2021 shows students weaving traditional five-color ropes under the guidance of their teachers to welcome the Dragon Boat Festival at Zhongguan Town Central School in Deqing County, Huzhou City, east China's Zhejiang Province. (WangZheng/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 10, 2021 shows soldiers and officers making 'zongzi' with their mothers in Chaohu City, east China's Anhui Province. (Xu Wei/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 11, 2021 shows volunteers and the elderly making 'zongzi' together at a nursing home in Mozhugongka County, southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Luoke/Guangmign Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 11, 2021 shows local residents holding a dragon boat race on land in Hongda Community, Longmatan District, Luzhou City, southwest China's Sichuan Province. (Yang Shangwei/Guangming Picture)

Dragon Boat Festival celebrated throughout China

Photo taken on June 12, 2021 shows people performing dragon boat folk show in Yangjiazhuang Village, Cuijiazhuang Town, Zunhua City, north China's Hebei Province. (Liu Mancang/Guangming Picture)

[ Editor: WXY ]