Chinese Dragon Boat Festival in addition to eating Zongzi, but also enjoy the Dragon Boat Races

Participants compete in a dragon boat race in Jinli Town of Gaoyao City, south China's Guangdong Province, June 2, 2011. The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, is a traditional Chinese holiday which falls on June 6 this year

 A crew competes in a dragon boat race in Foshan, south China's Guangdong Province, June 2, 2011. It is an agelong tradition for the Chinese people to run dragon boat races during the holidays of the Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu in Chinese, to pay homage to legendary poet and patriot Qu Yuan of Chu State living during China's Warring States Period (475 B.C.- 221 B.C.), who drowned himself to protest his fatuous king. 

Dragon boats gather on a river in Guangzhou, south China's Guangdong Province, June 2, 2011. It is an agelong tradition for the Chinese people to run dragon boat races during the holidays of the Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu in Chinese, to pay homage to legendary poet and patriot Qu Yuan of Chu State living during China's Warring States Period (475 B.C.- 221 B.C.), who drowned himself to protest his fatuous king

Crews compete in a dragon boat race in Wuzhou, east China's Shandong Province, June 2, 2011. It is an agelong tradition for the Chinese people to run dragon boat races during the holidays of the Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu in Chinese, to pay homage to legendary poet and patriot Qu Yuan of Chu State living during China's Warring States Period (475 B.C.- 221 B.C.), who drowned himself to protest his fatuous king.

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