China celebrates Dragon Boat Festival
(Agencies)
Updated: 2006-05-31 22:29
Participants paddle forward during a
Dragon Boat race in the suburbs of Guangzhou, capital of China's southern
Guangdong province, May 31, 2006. The Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on May
31 this year, commemorates the attempted rescue of Chinese poet Qu Yuan. It is
believed that Qu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 277
B.C in China's Hubei province. [Reuters]
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