端午節--The Dragon Boat Festival is a lunar holiday, occurring on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.划龍舟--The Chinese Dragon Boat Festival is a significant holiday celebrated in China, and the one with the longest history. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated by boat races in the shape of dragons. Competing teams row their boats forward to a drumbeat racing to reach the finish end first.
包粽子--The boat races during the Dragon Boat Festival are traditional customs to attempts to rescue the patriotic poet Chu Yuan. Chu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277 B.C. Chinese citizens now throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked rice into the water. Therefore the fish could eat the rice rather than the hero poet. This later on turned into the custom of eating tzungtzu and rice dumplings
Left is meat rice dumplings, right is alkalize rice dumplings(vegetable foods)eating with suger or syrup .掛菖蒲、艾草--The celebration's is a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of the year. It is done so by different practices such as hanging healthy herbs on the front door.
Drinking nutritious concoctions, and displaying portraits of evil's nemesis, Chung Kuei.
立蛋--If one manages to stand an egg on it's end at exactly 12:00 noon, the following year will be a lucky one.
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I remember these rice packages from my travel in China. Do you also eat rice in the morning, rice as lunch and rice as dinner?
A lot of people eat rice in lunch and dinner,breakfast have many choice,and myself I love noodle more than rice. China is a good place on travel.
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