[In Photos] China's 2021 Dragon Boat Festival: Dancing, Zongzi, and Arts
Yicai Global
DATE:  Jun 15 2021
/ SOURCE:  Yicai
[In Photos] China's 2021 Dragon Boat Festival: Dancing, Zongzi, and Arts [In Photos] China's 2021 Dragon Boat Festival: Dancing, Zongzi, and Arts

(Yicai Global) June 15 -- People across China have been celebrating the annual Dragon Boat Festival by traveling and participating in cultural activities such as making zongzi, sticky rice dumplings.

Men in red were performing a traditional dragon dance at Beijing's Longtan Lake Park on June 12.

Some 25 teams participated in a contest of catching carp and ducks in northwestern China's Shaanxi province on June 12.

Residents of central China's Zigui county, where the famous Chinese poet and politician Qu Yuan was born, were performing a dragon dance three days before the festival in the town square.

People were taking photos underneath Patrick Shearn's art installation called River of Light at Central Harbourfront Event Space in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on June 12.

In the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, women dressed in traditional Chinese clothing were teaching children how to make zongzi wrapped in bamboo leaves.

Editors: Zhang Yushuo, Emmi Laine, Xiao Yi

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Keywords:   Dragon Boat Festival,zongzi