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Dragon Boat Festival dawns

(chinadaily.com.cn) Updated: 2012-06-20 11:30

Dragon Boat Festival dawns

Children are bathed in wormwood leaves, traditional plant leaves used to drive away worms during the Dragon Boat Festival, in Zigui county, Hubei province. The Dragon Boat Festival, also called the Duanwu Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. For thousands of years, the festival has been marked by eating Zongzi and racing dragon boats. This year the festival falls on June 23. [Photo/Xinhua]

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