A resident picks cooking materials for making zongzi, the typical snack for the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, at a supermarket in the city of Yinchuan in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on May 22. Zongzi is a pyramid-shaped snack made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves. The Dragon Boat Festival has a history of more than 2,000 years, and falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. This year, it falls on June 6 (XINHUA) |