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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.
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 ...
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.
The Guizhou Miao Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional folk event held every year by the Miao people in the Shibingtai River Basin of the Qingshui River in the southeastern part of Guizhou, China on the 25th day of the fifth lunar month after the Dragon Boat Festival. The local Miao people will row a canoe dragon boat on this day.
Dragon-boat Racing[赛龙舟] When Dragon Boat Festival is coming, Yangxi county people would have dragon-boat racing in different towns. People would stand along the rivers or running towards the racing boats. It really is an exciting thing locally. More important, the competitors would create beautiful and stable boats for racing.
An important aspect of Chinese culture is the zodiac, which is based on a 12-year cycle. Said to have originated from a Chinese Poem about 12 animals that came from the heavens to help farmers ...
The Miao Sister Festival and the Canoe Dragon Boat Festival are world-famous, and the Miao Flying Song is well-known in the art world. Shidong has exquisite craftsmanship, unique style, exquisite Miao silver jewelry and handicrafts, hand embroidery with Miao characteristic culture, and a unique national food culture.
The festival will take place on Saturday, August 20, 2022. Team registration began on May 1.