The Dragon Boat festival strengthens bonds within families and establishes a harmonious relationship between humanity and nature.

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And yet the Dragon Boat Festival and the races are enormously popular.

BBC: Here be dragons

The Dragon Boat Festival is a custom seemingly kept going by willpower, surrounded by the remains of a great tradition of endeavour.

BBC: Here be dragons

Macau has a major public holiday in June for the Dragon Boat Festival , when boats are raced off the tip of the Macau Peninsula.

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The sport dates back thousands of years, but some of these warriors are modern-day breast cancer survivors racing in a dragon boat festival on Lake Peachtree south of Atlanta, Georgia.

CNN: Ancient Chinese sport helps modern breast cancer survivors

On June 18, locals celebrate the annual Dragon Boat Festival, a national holiday that is marked by races on the Keelung River and by eating jungtzu, a steamed dumpling stuffed with glutinous rice and other goodies.

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Beginning on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people of several ethnic groups throughout China and the world celebrate the Dragon Boat festival, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River.

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The government has mooted reforms that would reduce May Day observance to a single day and distribute the rest over a series of one-day holidays for the traditional Tomb Sweeping day, Dragon Boat festival and Mid-Autumn festival.

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