TIME: 6th June 2011 18:00-20:00
VENUE: LSE Confucius Institute for Business London, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, Room G11
RESERVATION: Email:L.Hong1@lse.ac.uk
Tel: 020 7955 6253.
Duanwu Festival (端午节), also known as Dragon Boat Festival (龙舟节), is a traditional and statutory holiday associated with Chinese and other East Asian and Southeast Asian societies as well. A number of theories exist about its origins as a number of folk traditions and explanatory myths are connected to its observance. Today the best known of these relates to the suicide in 278 BCE of Qu Yuan, poet and statesman of the Chu kingdom during the Warring States periodThe focus of the celebrations includes eating the rice dumpling (粽子), drinking realgar wine (雄黄酒), and racing dragon boats.