People observe various folk customs to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival-Xinhua

People observe various folk customs to celebrate Dragon Boat Festival

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2022-06-03 20:09:53

Actress perform traditional dance in Yongchuan District in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)

Dragon boat crew members compete in a traditional Chinese dragon boat race on Hanjiang River in Ankang City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Photo by Shao Xiangdong/Xinhua)

A child takes part in Touhu game, or Pitch-pot, an ancient entertainment that requires players to throw arrows from a set distance into a tube, during traditional celebrative activities held in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)

A local resident hangs a bundle of mugwort on the door in Yongchuan District in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)

Actors perform traditional dragon dance in Yongchuan District in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)

A child makes Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, during traditional celebrative activities held in Guiyang, southwest China's Guizhou Province, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)

A girl marks a decorated dragon boat before a dragon boat race in Luoyang City, central China's Henan Province, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Photo by Zhang Yixi/Xinhua)

Villagers wearing folk costumes on a dragon boat use paddles to splash water onto a silkworm-raising basket with the Chinese calligraph of Duanwu (traditional Chinese solar term) to pray for favourable weather in a traditional way in Tangjing Village of Deqing County, east China's Zhejiang Province, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Photo by Xie Shangguo/Xinhua)

Aerial photo shows actors performing traditional dance in Yongchuan District in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)

Tourists make Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, in Yongchuan District in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)

Dragon boat crew members compete in a traditional Chinese dragon boat race on Hanjiang River in Ankang City, northwest China's Shaanxi Province, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Photo by Shao Xiangdong/Xinhua)

Aerial photo shows actors performing traditional dragon dance in Yongchuan District in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Xinhua/Wang Quanchao)

Students make Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, in Miluo City, central China's Hunan Province, June 3, 2022, the day of China's traditional Dragon Boat Festival. (Xinhua/Chen Zhenhai)