This post I want to introduce one traditional Chinese festival- the Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is officially on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and most Chinese people celebrate it because it is a very important festival in China or Taiwan. Chinese people commemorate a very famous poet - Qu Yuan. Due to he fell into despair and threw himself into the Milou River, and he was so loved by the people, fishermen rushed out in long boats, beating drums to scare the fish away, and throwing zong zi – a pyramid-shaped mass of glutinous rice wrapped in leaves, into the water to feed fish so that they would not eat Qu Yuan's body. Therefore, people celebrate Qu Yuan’s death anniversaries by eating zong zi and row the dragon boat every year. That’s origin of the Dragon Boat Festival.
We TWSA (Taiwanese Students Association) hold activities for the Dragon Boat Festival every year. This year is no exception. We will invite all Taiwan people at UF to Lake Wauberg on Saturday, June 12 to eat zong zi together. After eating zong zi, people can go to lake to row the boat and have race. This is a good opportunity to let Taiwanese people get together and keep good relationships.
Zong zi is a traditional Chinese food - the main ingredient of zong zi is the glutinous rice. It is wrapped with the bamboo or reed leaves and makes Zong Zi different from other types of Chinese dumplings. In addition, you can add anything you like into rice such as egg, meat, or chestnuts. Zong zi is a very special Chinese food and it tastes great. Therefore, I hope readers can love it!
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