Qu Yuan's hometown prepares for Duanwu Festival

Local residents make Zongzi, some kind of traditional Chinese rice-pudding, at Guizhou township in Zigui county, Cental China's Hubei province, June 7, 2013. People in Zigui, the hometown of Qu Yuan, prepare to celebrate the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, or June 12 this year. The festival is to commemorate the death of Qu Yuan, a patriot poet during the Warring States Period (475-221 BC), who committed suicide by flinging himself into the Miluo River after his mother kingdom, fell into enemy's hands. [Photo/Xinhua]

Paintings about the Dragon Boat Festival

Ancient dwellings rebuilt into Duanwu Festival gallery