{"id":39242,"date":"2026-06-19T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/?p=39242"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:53:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T17:53:09","slug":"die-drachenboote-und-der-dichter-den-ein-volk-noch-naehrt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kaizen-blog.org\/en\/die-drachenboote-und-der-dichter-den-ein-volk-noch-naehrt\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dragon Boats and the Poet a People Still Feed"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan celebrated the more than two thousand year old Dragon Boat Festival, known for its races but in essence an ancient festival of health and protection, born from the desire to live in harmony with nature. To this day, people still throw food into the river for a poet who sank into it long ago.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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Before the Dragon Boat Festival, Chebei Village in Guangzhou held one of its most important and traditional Dragon Boat Festival celebrations: \u201cZhaojing,\u201d which can roughly be translated as \u201csending invitations.\u201d With a history of more than 300 years, Chebei\u2019s dragon boat culture keeps alive a centuries old Cantonese tradition of mutual visits between dragon boat communities. Locally, this custom is known as \u201cZhaojing.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

On Friday, dragon boat races and lion dances moved across the mainland, through Hong Kong and Taiwan, and everywhere people celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival, which is more than two thousand years old. It is best known for its races, yet its origins lie in ancient ideas of health, protection, and maintaining a good relationship with nature. The fact that the festival has been preserved for thousands of years shows how much people value their inherited customs, said Meng Dongmei, a retiree from Beijing\u2019s Tongzhou District. Her family keeps the festival in many traditional ways. They prepare zongzi, the sticky rice dumplings associated with the celebration, and the children wear five colored bands believed to ward off evil. Online they had also found an old recipe for cooking eggs with mugwort leaves and red dates, together with brown sugar and ginger. It is said to protect against illness and keep people healthy throughout the year, Meng said, and so the family hopes the festival will bring them health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n