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The Dragon Boat Festival (traditional Chinese: 端午節; simplified Chinese: 端午节; pinyin: Duānwǔ jié) is a traditional Chinese holiday that occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, which corresponds to late May or early June in the Gregorian calendar.
About 50 teams will take part in the annual dragon boat races at Lakeshore State Park on Saturday, Aug. 10. How to watch the 2024 Milwaukee Dragon Boat Festival: Race schedule, performances and ...
The Concord Pacific Dragon Boat Festival is a legacy of Expo 86, where Vancouver's Chinese-Canadian community introduced the traditional annual Chinese Duanwu Festival (summer solstice) to Canada as a cultural outreach program to share Chinese culture with the city's multi-cultural population. The dragon boat festival was created to promote ...
"Dragon Boat Festival" has 584,000, but notice that many of them are talking about specific dragon boat competitions in various places, rather than the cultural festival or statutory holiday itself (e.g. the "Rio Tinto Alcan Dragon Boat Festival", which is not really what this article is about). The same goes for the news results: the second ...
The festival will take place on Saturday, August 20, 2022. Team registration began on May 1.
In addition to providing audiences with traditional Chinese foods and performances, the festival, now in its 18th year, hosts over 150 dragon boat teams from across North America, making it one of the largest dragon boat festivals in the United States. Depending on the competitive division, teams compete for cash prizes or airline tickets.
Festival crowd at Point State Park with the downtown Pittsburgh skyline in the background Artists working on an annual sand sculpture for the Regatta. The race corresponds to a three-day festival in downtown Pittsburgh consisting of variety of events including free concerts, food vendors, aerial competitions, various water sports, dragon boat races, and the July Fourth fireworks display for ...
[1] [2] [3] The festival was most recently held in 2019. The 2020 and 2021 festivals were cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022 saw the return of the festival but the number of participants was less than pre pandemic years. In 1998, the Charity Cup Challenge was added as a fundraising component for the Ottawa Dragon Boat Foundation.