| Participants compete in a dragon boat race during an event marking the Dragon Boat Festival in Shenzhen, south China's Guangdong Province, on June 16. The Dragon Boat Festival, which is held to commemorate Qu Yuan (340 BC - 278 BC), a romantic poet and minister to the king of Chu who drowned himself after he was forced into exile, falls on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar. People commemorate Qu through dragon boat races, eating zong zi, a traditional Chinese food made of glutinous rice folded into bamboo leaves, and several other activities, on the anniversary of Qu's death (XINHUA) |
