Dragon Boat Festival activities
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Daning Road Subdistrict partnered with Yiling District in Yichang City, Hubei Province, on a livestream event celebrating Dragon Boat Festival.
Yichang is homeland to Qu Yuan, a renowned patriotic poet from the Warring States Period (475-221 BC) who drowned himself after his motherland was invaded. Legend has it that after learning of his death, locals paddled boats hoping to salvage his body but failed, subsequently dropping packets of rice into the river to prevent fish from eating his body.
Over time, that practice developed into the tradition of eating zongzi, glutinous rice dumplings with salty or sweet stuffing wrapped in a bamboo leaf, during Dragon Boat Festival.
At Daning Mall’s Life Hub, local residents learned to wrap Shanghai-style zongzi, while more than 1,000 kilometers away in Yiling, local officials introduced their specialties to the people of Shanghai at a public square along the Yangtze River. Another highlight was a charity bazaar to promote products such as tea and tea-flavor zongzi from Yiling.
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