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Showing posts with label Dragon Boat Festival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dragon Boat Festival. Show all posts

Monday, May 30, 2011

Enjoy the Dragon Boat Festival on Chinese Beach

How do you plan to get to know more about China, Chinese culture and Chinese festival? To read, to watch movie, oh, no, just squeeze sometime to take yourself to the oriental mysterious paradise--China. As the Dragon Boat Festival is approching, come to China during this time, you can not only enjoy the wonderful scenery in these neither too hot nor too cold days but also grasp a good opportunity to get near to traditional Chinese festival and peculiar folk customs. So, wait for what, let's turn our desires into actions. Further information can be seen on Onlinechinatours.
Beidaihe Beach, Hebei Provinde

In sunny days, Beidaihe Beach is particularly attractive. Look, the blue sea, the golden beach and the soft breeze, want to go?

Numerous waterfowls playing in the beach

Sanya, Hainan Province

The stone reads" a pillar in the south regions", maybe in the underdeveloped times, people regatd this area as the end of the whole world, and the stone is rightly play the role of a mark.

A statue of Guanyin standing there elegantly

Shells and marine animals in the beach, are they enjoying the sun, or going out playing while forgetting the way back home? 

Dalian golden stone beach in Liaoning Province

A wonderful shade to get away from  the sun

The stone reads "golden stone beach", standing as the mark, telling tourists that they've already arrived at the amazing beach

A man-made beach which is situated in the south of the Bund, Shanghai 

Baicheng beach, Xiamen, Fujian Province

Scenes on Baicheng beach in the dusk

Dragon Boat Festival

Chinese Dragon Boat Festival falls on May the fifth in the lunar calendar as a traditional festival for Chinese Han nationality. It was once a day for driving away demons and evils, but with the time passing by, it turns into a festival for eating zongzi, holding dradon boat racing competition, wearing wormwood and drinking realgar liquor. In China, it is well-known that dragon boat festival is for commemorating Qu Yuan, a respected patriotic poet, thus, the Dragon Boat Festival was once also called " Poet's Day".  Further information can be found on onlinechinatours.

Qu Yuan (about 339.B.C-278 B.C.), a well-known Chinese patriotic poet, to whom the Dragon Boat Festival is held

The folks are in splendid attire for the preparing of the dragon boat competition 

Intense dragon boat competition

Paper-cut of dragon boat

Traditional Chinese Zongzi, of which usually the main ingredient is rice, when making, you can add whatever you like into the Zongzi, like ormosia, peanuts, meat, etc., to your own flavor.

Different color of the strings represent different meaning, varies from area to area.

the raw Zongzi and red dates, it seems that the owner intended to make some red date Zongzi.


Realgar Liquor

Aihu, usually worn by little kids, the tradition handed down believes that Aihu can drive away evil spirits and demons to protect the safty of young kid.


Artemisia argyi, the Chinese in the past usually have a bath with the water boiled with artemisia argyi, they believe in such way, one would not get skin allergy

Tour during the Dragon Boat Festival

As it is forcasted by the weather forecast that it is likely to rain around the Dragon Boat Festival in the south China regions, including Guangxi, Hunan and Hubei Province, so if you are planning to experience a typical Chinese Dragon Boat Festival in sunny days, you may choose among these areas: Xiamen, Nanjing, Wuzhen, Zhouzhuang, well, of course, Beijing is also a good choice never out of date, where you can appreciate the profound culture relics, like Summer Palace, the Great Wall, the Imperial Palace, and as well the modern architecture, the most well-known representative ones are the Birds Nest and the Water Cube. Further information can be found on onlinechinatours.

Qinhuai River, Nanjing, where leaves masses of Chinese poems and love stories


Qinhuai River in the night

Zhongshan Mausoleum, Nanjing

Wuzhen, Zhejiang Province

Wuzhen, still keeps the features of its origial color

Zhouzhuang, Jiangsu Province

Zhouzhuang

Zhouzhuang

Xiamen, Guangdong Province

Xiamen

Tian'anmen Square, Beijing

the well-known Birds Nest, the main stadium of the 2008 Beijing Olmpic Games

Water Cube and the Bird's Nest in the night