DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL / DUANWUJIE / TUAN YANG CHIEH

19 June

19th June 2026

Chinese

Most notable now for the great dragon boat races which take place between slim rowing boats (sometimes 100 feet long) shaped like dragons. People also go down to the rivers to picnic and celebrate on boats. Originally the festival commemorated the suicide by drowning of the poet and statesman Ch’u Yuan in about 279 BCE.