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Folk customs of Chinese traditional Duanwu Festival

Updated: May 30,2019 9:58 AM     Xinhua

A woman and a child make Zongzi, a kind of rice dumpling wrapped up with bamboo leaves, as part of the traditional folk customs to celebrate the upcoming Duanwu Festival in Zigui county of Yichang, Central China’s Hubei province, May 29, 2019. Duanwu Festival is traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on Chinese lunar calendar. [Photo/Xinhua]

Contestants take part in a dragon boat race held on the Yujiang River as part of the traditional folk customs to celebrate the upcoming Duanwu Festival in Changning county of Yibin, Southwest China’s Sichuan province, May 29, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]

A woman and a child make Zongzi, a kind of rice dumpling wrapped up with bamboo leaves, as part of the traditional folk customs to celebrate the upcoming Duanwu Festival in Zigui county of Yichang, Central China’s Hubei province, May 29, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]

Two men compete in an event to catch a duck on the Yujiang River as part of the traditional folk customs to celebrate the upcoming Duanwu Festival in Changning county of Yibin, Southwest China’s Sichuan province, May 29, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]

Contestants take part in a dragon boat race held on the Yujiang River as part of the traditional folk customs to celebrate the upcoming Duanwu Festival in Changning county of Yibin, Southwest China’s Sichuan province, May 29, 2019. [Photo/Xinhua]