Well here we are....Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival in China

"The Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Festival, Duānwǔ Jié, Double Fifth, Tuen Ng Jit) is a
traditional holiday that commemorates the life and death of the famous Chinese scholar
Qu Yuan (Chu Yuan). The festival occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month on the 
Chinese lunar calendar.

What Do People Do?

The Dragon Boat Festival is a celebration where many eat rice dumplings (zongzi), drink realgar wine
(xionghuangjiu), and race dragon boats. Other activities include hanging icons of Zhong Kui (a mythic
guardian figure), hanging mugwort and calamus, taking long walks, writing spells and wearing perfumed 
medicine bags.

All of these activities and games such as making an egg stand at noon were regarded by the ancients as
an effective way of preventing disease, evil, while promoting good health and well-being. People
sometimes wear talismans to fend off evil spirits or they may hang the picture of Zhong Kui, a guardian 
against evil spirits, on the door of their homes.

In the Republic of China, the festival was also celebrated as "Poets' Day" in honor of Qu Yuan, who

is known as China's first poet. Chinese citizens traditionally throw bamboo leaves filled with cooked

rice into the water and it is also customary to eat tzungtzu and rice dumplings."

June 9-12...Chinese National Holiday

If you're wondering how I feel about Dragon Boat 
Festival....I'm all for it! Truly. Enjoy! But please....can
you come back from said festival and issue us our LOA? 
Thanks. 

Love, 

The mama who loves a good celebration but desperately 
wants her baby boy home