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Dragon Boat Festival marked across China
Published: Jun 18, 2018 08:54 PM

People take part in a dragon boat race to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival at Nanhu Park in Huaibei City, east China's Anhui Province, June 18, 2018. Dragon boat race is a traditional event for the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, or June 18 this year. (Xinhua/Wan Shanchao)


 

People take part in a dragon boat race to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Nantong City, east China's Jiangsu Province, June 18, 2018. Dragon boat race is a traditional event for the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, or June 18 this year. (Xinhua/Jiang Jianhua)


 

People take part in a dragon boat race to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Zaozhuang, east China's Shandong Province, June 18, 2018. Dragon boat race is a traditional event for the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, or June 18 this year. (Xinhua/Gao Qimin)


 

Children taste "zongzi", glutinous rice with various fillings wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, during a folk custom activity to greet the Dragon Boat Festival at a museum in Hohhot, north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, June 17, 2018. (Xinhua/Peng Yuan)


 

A child displays sachets during an activity to celebrate upcoming Dragon Boat Festival at Kunlun Qihang kindergarten in Hengshui City, north China's Hebei Province, June 15, 2018. (Xinhua/Zhu Xudong)


 

People make Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, during an activity to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park in Beijing, capital of China, June 18, 2018. Various activities were held to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, or June 18 this year. (Xinhua/Luo Xiaoguang)


 

A folk artist writes Chinese character Wang on the head of a child during an activity to celebrate the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival at Baoqiao center kindergarten in Changxing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, June 15, 2018. (Xinhua/Xu Yu)


 

People take part in a dragon boat race to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhenyuan County of Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture of Qiandongnan, southwest China's Guizhou Province, June 18, 2018. Various activities were held to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar, or June 18 this year. (Xinhua/Yang Wenbin)