1. Dragon Boat Festival is traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar.
2. Dragon boat racing is an essential festive celebration of this traditionally important day, which falls on the fifth day of May according to the Chinese lunar calender.
3. This year's Duanwu Festival opened on May 28 with a spectacular dragon boat racing cavalcade, as well as international competition racing in the Xixi Wetland Park.
4. In countries like the United States, dragon boat racing and the dragon dance are making inroads from Chinatown into the mainstream.
5. In this way, the Dragon Boat Festival has become a formal commemoration day.
6. The students rented a dragon boat from Guangzhou Water Sports Administration Center, hired an instructor to train them and practiced three to four times weekly.
7. The key criterion is whether the thin line papercuts on a dragon boat are exquisitely made.
8. The police introduced the foreigners to customs of the Dragon Boat Festival before their return to the UK.
9. The boats would be decorated with pennants and flags, and prows topped by colorful dragon heads - hence the Dragon Boat Festival.
10. People in Yanqing traditionally go to the Dragon Boat Temple Fair and the Dragon Boat Culture Festival is held in the county.