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2018-06-12

Dragon Boat Festival @ Shanghai, China - 2018

Dragon Boat Race with alumni from UChicago, Oxbridge, Northwestern and Stanford on June 2nd, 2018 at Shanghai.

YouTube clip is to share our moments. Cheers.

 

The Duanwu Festival, also often known, especially in the West, as the Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional holiday originating in China, occurring near the summer solstice. It is also known as Zhongxiao Festival (Chinese: 忠孝節; pinyin: Zhōngxiàojié), commemorating fealty and filial piety. The festival now occurs on the 5th day of the 5th month of the traditional Chinese calendar, which is the source of the festival's alternative name, the Double Fifth Festival. The Chinese calendar is lunisolar, so the date of the festival varies from year to year on the Gregorian calendar.