Duanwu Festival is celebrated across China
Wire desk byline Sourced from Xinhua, Dawn, Arab News, Anadolu and Minute Mirror. Translated and abridged by the GSRRA Desk.
People attend a Zongzi making contest in a village in Yinan County, Linyi City, east China’s Shandong Province, June 20, 2026. Friday marks the Duanwu Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month in the traditional Chinese calendar.
The festival is best known for holding dragon boat race, eating Zongzi, sticky rice dumplings wrapped with bamboo or reed leaves, and hanging mugwort and calamus as symbol of health and protection. (Photo by Wang Yanbing/Xinhua)
Senior citizens and staff members make Zongzi together at an elderly care center in Boxing County of Binzhou City, east China’s Shandong Province, June 20, 2026. Friday marks the Duanwu Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month in the traditional Chinese calendar.
The festival is best known for holding dragon boat race, eating Zongzi, sticky rice dumplings wrapped with bamboo or reed leaves, and hanging mugwort and calamus as symbol of health and protection. (Photo by Chen Bin/Xinhua)
People attend a Zongzi making contest at a scenic spot in Zunhua, north China’s Hebei Province, June 20, 2026. Friday marks the Duanwu Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month in the traditional Chinese calendar.
The festival is best known for holding a dragon boat race, eating Zongzi, sticky rice dumplings wrapped with bamboo or reed leaves, and hanging mugwort and calamus as a symbol of health and protection. (Photo by Liu Mancang/Xinhua)
People attend a Zongzi making contest at a shopping center in Taixing, east China’s Jiangsu Province, June 19, 2026. Friday marks the Duanwu Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival celebrated on the 5th day of the 5th month in the traditional Chinese calendar.
The festival is best known for holding a dragon boat race, eating Zongzi, sticky rice dumplings wrapped with bamboo or reed leaves, and hanging mugwort and calamus as a symbol of health and protection.
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Zamir Ahmed Awan is the founder and Chair of the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, and years later he went back to China as Pakistan's science counsellor in Beijing, from 2010 until 2016, working on science and higher education cooperation between the two countries.…
