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dumpling festival 2010

dumpling festival on 16th Jun 2010. A priest in traditional costume throws zongzi, a traditional Chinese rice dumpling, into the river during a religious ritual to honour patriotic Chinese poet Qu Yuan during the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, at Longtan park in Beijing June 16, 2010. The festival commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in 277 B.C. on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to protest against the corrupt government of his time. The tradition

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