The Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival that is one of the three major Chinese holidays is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Rice Dumplings and Dragon Boat racing has become an important activity to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival. The highlight of the Dragon Boat Festival is the Dragon Boat racing! Dragon boats are long canoes that are painted in bright colors – to look like dragons - and feature a dragon’s head at the bow and a dragon’s curved tail at the stern. The winner of the Dragon Boat racing is the first team to grab a flag hung at the end of the course. I like the Rice Dumplings made by my grandmother. Every Dragon Boat Festival, we do the Rice Dumplings together. That is a very good memory.