Andrea Armas: section 2

Jasmy Fabila: section 3

Llanah Gonzalez: section 1 + audio

Stephanie Garrett: section 4

Melanie Vazquez: section 5 and 6

What is the holiday about/for?

The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese Holiday which occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. This festival commemorates the life and death of the famous Chinese scholar Qu Yuan, whom was a third-century poet and political figure of the state of Chu in ancient China.

When is the festival?

This year's Dragon Boat Festival (2022) falls on June 3rd in the solar calendar and May 5th in the lunar calendar.

  Some of the many traditions of the Dragon Boat Festival (端午节) are racing dragon boats, dragon boats are giant canoes that can hold 16 or more people and are carved into the shape of a dragon. People will come together and paddle in groups to race each other. This great boat race represents the many boats that paddled out to save Qu Yuan when he drowned himself in the Miluo River when the Chu empire fell.

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  Some other customs are wearing incense bags to ward off illness and evil spirits, hanging Calamus and Wormwood to dispel evil and bring health to the family.

What do people do during the

Dragon Boat Festival?

What do people eat during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Zongzi- Is a sticky rice dumpling with different fillings wrapped with either bamboo or reed leaves. It is eaten because Qu yuan gave his life for his country by drowning himself. People threw zongzi into the river to appease the water creatures so they wouldn't eat his body.

Dagao- A sort of cake made of mugwort and boiled sticky rice.

Mianshanzhi-  Wheat flour food made of different color layers in the shape of a fan. Each layer covered with red pepper powder.

Jiandui- A fried glutinous ball made of wheat or sticky rice flour with sesame around it Jiandui can fill up the holes in the heavens that caused the raining season before the festival. (according to folklore)

Ricefield Eel- Usually cooked with tofu and mushrooms can also be cooked by braising with garlic.

Pancake- Thin pancakes rolled up and filled with things like Chinese chives, diced fried eggs, mushrooms, and meat.

Tea Eggs- Eggs boiled in tea, painted red, and then placed in a net bag so it can be placed around a child's neck to defuse bad luck or misfortune.

Garlic Eggs- Eggs boiled in garlic are a great breakfast because it is regarded as an alexipharmic to dispel poisonous insects.

  Vidoe's introduction to the 

      Dragon Boat Festival 

                    端午節 

Video link: 

https://youtube.com/watch?v=atADGZw0T7w&feature=share