Dragon boats cruise in Beijing

2010-06-17 06:51:38 GMT SINA.com A three-day festival with dragon boat races commemorates the Chinese folk hero and poet Qu Yuan

Thousands paddlers enjoy dragon boat racing "World Cup" in Hong Kong

2010-06-17 06:25:05 GMT Xinhua English HONG KONG, June 17 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of paddlers from home and abroad joined eight dragon boat regattas at tourist spots across Hong Kong on Wednesday, turning the traditional summertime festival sport into a dragon boat racing "World Cup".

Dragon boat racing to celebrate festival

2010-06-15 09:56:50 GMT China Daily Villagers attend a dragon boats race in Daoxian county, Hunan province on June 13.

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival celebrated in Zhejiang

2010-06-15 01:52:11 GMT Xinhua English People paddle in the water during an annual dragon boat activity held in Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province, June 14, 2010, to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.

Unique way to celebrate festival

2010-06-15 00:19:17 GMT Xinhua English BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhuanet) -- In addition to dragon boat racing and eating zongzi dumplings, the to-do list for this year's Dragon Boat Festival has two new items: touring Expo and watching the World Cup.

Dragon festival celebrated worldwide

2010-06-16 01:49:08 GMT Xinhua English

Drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival

2010-06-12 07:51:19 GMT Xinhua English Duanwu is also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, because dragon boat races are the most popular activity during the festival, especially in Southern China.

Dragon boat race in Duanwu Festival

2010-06-12 07:42:32 GMT SINA.com A dragon boat or "dragonboat" is a very long and narrow, canoe style human-powered boat now used in the team paddling sport of dragon boat racing which originated in China over 2000 years ago. While competition has taken place annually for more than 20 centuries as part of folk ritual, it emerged in modern times as an international "sport" in Hong Kong in 1976. Like running, horse racing and marksmanship, the racing of dragon boats is among mankind's oldest organized competitions.

Honoring a poet patriot

2010-06-12 07:38:38 GMT China Daily Duanwu, popularly known as Dragon Boat Festival, will be upon us soon. Pauline D Loh reflects on its legends and traditions.

Backgrounder:Origins of Duanwu Festival

2010-06-12 07:16:46 GMT SINA.com The Duanwu Festival (in Mandarin Chinese pronunciation) or Tuen Ng Festival (in Cantonese Chinese pronunciation) is a Chinese traditional and statutory holiday. It is a public holiday in mainland China and Taiwan, where it is called the "Duanwu Jie" and a public holiday in Hong Kong and Macau, where it is called the "Tuen Ng Jit". In English it is also referred to as "Dragon Boat Festival", after one of the traditional activities for the holiday.

Dragon boat competition in Qu Yuan's hometown

2010-06-15 09:52:14 GMT Xinhua English Participants compete in a dragon boat race on the Yangtze River during an event marking the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival in Zigui county, Qu Yuan's hometown in central China's Hubei Province, June 15, 2010.

Zoo animals enjoy "zongzi"

2010-06-15 01:57:20 GMT Xinhua English Animals of the zoo in Jinan enjoyed special "zongzi" made for them on Monday, to celebrate the upcoming Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.

Reed leaves costume show held to mark Dragon Boat Festival

2010-06-13 06:40:57 GMT Xinhua English Residents display creations during a reed leaves costume show, at Xiaoying community of Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, June 12, 2010, to greet the upcoming Chinese Dragon Boat Festival.

Fragrant bags greet Chinese Dragon Boat Festival

2010-06-12 07:26:04 GMT Xinhua English Local residents make fragrant bags to greet the upcoming Chinese Dragon Boat Festival, at Zhonglou community in Xinchang County, east China's Zhejiang Province, June 8, 2010.

Octogenarians show off their zongzi skills

2010-06-04 07:49:16 GMT China Daily Octogenarians competed to wrap zongzi, a traditional Chinese food made of glutinous rice folded into bamboo leaves and used to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival that falls on the fifth day of the fifth month on Chinese lunar calendar, in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu province, June 2, 2010.