Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival
Taking
place on the 5th day of the 5th Lunar month, normally in May or June in our
calendar, there are dragon boat races, where teams of paddlers race the
long narrow boats accompanied by the beat of the drum down to the finish line.
The
locals rushed to the site, paddling on their boats and banging drums, gongs and
everything they could find to scare away anything that might harm Qu Yuan. They
also brought offerings of rice to calm the old man's spirit.
There
are a couple of high profile events in Hong, for example : Stanley, Aberdeen,
Saikung, Tai O and Cheung Chau.
Rice Dumplings for Dragon Boat Festival
The traditional rice dumplings will contain salted pork, dried
shrimp. Sometimes, it contains conpoy, mushroom, salted egg yolk, roast duck,
vegetarian rice dumplings with peanuts, red beans, green beans, red kidney
beans, and black-eyed beans.
BY PETRA
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