2014 端午节快乐 !
Happy Chinese Dumpling Festival 2014 !
Happy Duan Wu Festival 2014 !
Happy Dragon Boat Festival 2014 !
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This festival is said to commemorate the sacrifice of Qu Yuan, a legendary Chinese poet. In Mi Lo River around 2000 years ago, he drowned himself to protest against the rulers and to stop corruption. As respect to the poet, people throw dumplings into the river to stop fish from feeding on the poet’s body as well as making noise with dragon boat (longzhou – 龙舟) racing to scare the fish away.
The date of 端午节 / Chinese Dumpling Festival is determined based on lunar calendar, and falls on 5th day of the 5th month in the Chinese lunar calendar. Thus in Western calendar the date will change from year to year. 端午节 / Chinese Dumpling Festival 2014 will fall on Monday, 2 June 2014, which is today.
