Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Happy Dragon Boat Festival 2013

Today we have Google's own version of a dragon boat to celebrate a Chinese traditional festival, called DuanWu Jie (Duanwu Festival).

Though there are a couple of folk traditions and myths with their own interpretation to the origins of this festival, the most predominant one would be that of Qu Yuan who drowned himself in a river and people throwing rice dumplings (zongzi) into the river to feed the fish so that they would not eat his body.

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