Happy Dragon Boat’s Day
According to the lunar calander, today is Dragon Boat’s Day.
Happy Dragon Boat’s Day from chinese search engines:
Baidu shows us a picture of Zongzi dumplings, which is the traditional food for this festival.
Google presents a real Dragon Boat, there is always a Dragon Boat Game at this festival. Very popular even at oversea countries.
Sina greets us with a real Dragon Boad Game, we can see boats competing with each other.
Sohu does nothing for this festival, Sogou means a Dog for Search, maybe Dog does care about our traditional festival.
Yahoo does something, not for Dragon Boats day, but for World Cup 2006. Every day is World Cup day now, I love World Cup too, but they sould at least show some respect to chinese tradition, otherwise, their localization will be just a JOKE!
Thanks to Zhongsou, although I seldom use their search engine, I like this logo, they pay a real repect to the great poet, Qu Yuan. The festival is to worship him! Zongzi Dumplings and Dragon Boat were all related to him.
Summary for this festival:
One of the legend says:
“on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 278 B.C., Qu Yuan committed suicide by grasping a large rock and throwing himself into the Miluo River.
Local fisherman raced to their boats to recover his body, beating drums and splashing their paddles on the water to scare away the fish. But it was all to no avail. In one version of the legend, they began throwing rice on the water as a sacrifice to their dead hero, and to nourish his spirit. One night, the image of Qu Yuan appeared to one of the fisherman in a dream. In the dream, the poet revealed that the fish were eating the rice. He asked that the rice be wrapped in silk to protect it. Later, the silk was replaced with bamboo leaves.”
This story also tells us the history of dragon boat race and zongzi dumpling (Rice Packets).
Here is more information about this festival http://chinesefood.about.com/od/foodfestivals/a/dragonboat.htm