Dragon Boat Festival (端午節)

Today is a big holiday celebrated here in Taiwan. This means we have 4 days holiday. The Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, and together with Chinese New Year and Mid-Autumn Festival forms one of the three major Chinese holidays.

Dragon Boat Festival is highlighted by the dragon boat races, in which competing teams drive their boats forward rowing to the rhythm of pounding drums. This lively and colorful tradition has continued unbroken for centuries to the present day.

Specially this day, we ate a typical food called Gun-zi (粽子) it is a sticky rice with meat and other things inside wraped with a big brown leaf.

A lot of people today will bring their families and friend to see the dragon race. The most exciting part, at noon, children can make the egg standing up.