Dragon Boat Festival
The Dragon Boat Festival, also called Double Fifth Festival, is celebrated on May 5th on lunarcalendar. It is a folk festival widely spread with a history of over 2,000 years, and is one of the most important Chinese festivals as well. There are various celebrating activities on that day, among which the customs of eating rice dumplings and dragon boat racing are quite important.
What to eat on the Dragon Boat Festival：
Glutinous rice filled with meat, nuts or bean paste and wrapped in bamboo leaves. It is associated with Dragon Boat Festival with historical meaning.The custom of eating zongzi is now popular in North and South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian nations.
What to do on the Dragon Boat Festival：
Dragon boat racing is an indispensable part of the festival, held all over the country. As the gun is fired, people will see racers in dragon-shaped canoes pulling the oars harmoniously and hurriedly, accompanied by rapid drums, speeding toward their destination.
What to wear on Dragon Boat Festival：
On Dragon Boat Festival, parents also need to dress their children up with a sachet. They first sew little bags with colorful silk cloth, then fill the bags with perfumes or herbal medicines, and finally string them with silk threads. The sachet will be hung around the neck or tied to the front of a garment as an ornament. They are said to be able to ward off evil.
The sachets (Hsiang Pao in Chinese) are very popular with children and they vie with each other to collect as many as possible. Children are not the only ones who collect Hsiang Pao. Older people are often given them as a symbol of respect, and they are highly prized because of the intricate and beautiful embroidery that adorns them.
What to hang on the Dragon Boat Festival：
Hang branches of moxa and calamus around the doors of their homes display portraits of evil's nemesis, Chung Kuei.
Today is also Children's Day on June 1 and the birthday of our friend Jack. All the friends of the E-bon Iron and Steel family held a celebration together to celebrate June 1 and enjoy the joy~