Duan Wu culture festival
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-05-28 09:50
Folk artists, dressed in traditional
costumes, beat drums to celebrate Duan Wu culture festival ahead of the imminent
Chinese traditional Duan Wu festival in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province
May 27, 2006. The festival, also known as Dragon boat festival, which falls on
fifth day of the of the fifth lunar month, is held to commemorate Quyuan, a
patriotic poet in ancient China who drowned himself in despair in the Milo
River(in Hunan province) on that day. [Xinhua]
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