Every May or June, the fragrance of reed leaves fills the air. The Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Festival, falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. In Chinese, “duan” means “outset ...

The Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Festival, is the first Chinese ... a replicated image of a Northern Song Dynasty (960-1127) painting. Including dragon boat racing, the painting depicts that ...

A folk arts troupe performs traditional dance to celebrate Duanwu Festival in Fuzhou, capital of East China's Fujian province. Zhang Bin / For China Daily Besides enjoying a delicious zongzi ...

Tuesday marks the fifth day of the fifth month of the traditional Chinese calendar — an annual celebration known as Duanwu in Mandarin, Tuen Ng in Cantonese and the Dragon Boat Festival in the West.