Chinese Dragon Boat Festival 端午节
June 3rd, 2017
Event is free to public, and this year we will together with the New Haven Food Truck Festival and Dragon Boat Regatta, join us and have fun!
Chinese Dragon Boat Festival 端午節
June 9th, 2016
This year we will still celebrate this special festival in OISS, Yale International Center, 421 Temple Street, New Haven. June 9th, Thursday afternoon 2-5 PM.
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This is a special Chinese culture Festival, we will celebrate "Duanwu" festival, 端午节, people also call it Dragon Boat Festival. Falling on the 5th day of the 5th month according to Chinese lunar calendar, the Dragon Boat Festival is one of great significance.
Every year, in my hometown, Zhejiang province, City Wenzhou, dragon boat festival always together with dragon boat competition. Each street, block, school or company can join in. This tradition starts the end of the spring and autumn period (around 470BC.?)in my hometown, the last king of Country "Yue", whose name is Goujian, start this events to respect the god dragon and hope he can always protect he and his country. People in this festival do not say "happy dragon boat festival". They say "good health"! This is a only festival people say "Good Health!" to each other and hope we all can healthy and far away from all kinds of the bad things. Most dragon in China are water god, they control the waters, streams, lacks, rivers and oceans. And they also can effect the weather, control fog, rain or snow... People believe that the God dragon will keep the bad things far away from them and bring the health and harvest in autumn. In our old traditions, during this festival, people will drop the special food "Zongzi " in to the water, invite the water lives to eat them. They believe that those aquatic organisms are the children of God dragon. And here is another explain for the history of this Festival The Dragon Boat Festival has been held annually for more than 2,000 years and is notable for its educational influence. The festival commemorates the patriotic poet Qu Yuan (340-278 BC), and also acts as a chance for Chinese people to build their bodies and dispel diseases. Many legends circulate around the festival but the most popular is the legend of Qu Yuan. Many traditional customs and activities are held on the specified day by people in China and even by some people in neighbouring countries. Among these customs are dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, wearing a perfume pouch, tying five-colour silk thread and hanging mugwort leaves and calamus. Eating Zongzi (pyramid-shaped glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves) By the way, here is a video, the dragon boat race this year (June 20, 2015) in my hometown, have fun! |
Special food: "Zongzi", pyramid-shaped glutinous rice wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves.
Our group honorable member Mr. Dawei Sun draw a picture with "Zongzi" and tea for this Culture Festival.
Traditional race boat and dress for this festival. Usually on one traditional dragon boat, there are 32-34 people on a boat row together, and each boat also need 2 drummer, 2 helmsman, 1 standard-bearer, 1 for gong and 1 specially hold the statue of the god and together with the boat during the race.
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Organizer
Yale Chinese painting and calligraphy group(耶魯中國書畫社)
Group website: http://yalecpcgroup.weebly.com/
E-mail: [email protected]
Sponsor
Office of Yale International Students and Scholars (OISS)
http://www.yale.edu/oiss/
New Haven/Leon Sister City Project
http://www.newhavenleon.org/
Yale Chinese painting and calligraphy group(耶魯中國書畫社)
Group website: http://yalecpcgroup.weebly.com/
E-mail: [email protected]
Sponsor
Office of Yale International Students and Scholars (OISS)
http://www.yale.edu/oiss/
New Haven/Leon Sister City Project
http://www.newhavenleon.org/
Chinese Dragon Boat Festival 端午節----- June 18, 2015
More photos about this event, here is the link(Chinese culture festival, June 18, 2015)
https://goo.gl/photos/H5VpE44zMm2xtdT76
https://goo.gl/photos/H5VpE44zMm2xtdT76