Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival (known as Duanwu Festival in China) is in memory of a great patriot poet of the State of Chu during the warring States period (475-221 B.C.), Qu Yuan who drowned himself to protest his emperor who gave in to the bully State of Chin. To avoid the fish to consume his body, people of Chin launched their boats and threw rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo leaves into the river where he was drowned to feed the fish. People today still eat the bamboo-leaf rice dumplings (zong zi). Teams of dragon boats, similar to long canoes, train for weeks for the contests in this day, not only in China, but also in other Asian countries with Chinese populations.

The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the 5th day of the fifth Chinese lunar month. The Chinese people enjoy one day off this day. The 2011 festival was on June 6 and the 2012 festival falls on June 23.

3 days tours for Dragon Boat Festival:

3 days Huangshan Trip
The Avatar Tour: 3 days Zhangjiajie Holiday

Beijing Departure:

3 days Qingdao tour by flight
3 days Wold Heritage tour to Pingyao and Datong by train
3 days Inner Mongolia Grasslands Tour

Shanghai Departure:

Huangshan Trip by train