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Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival. Fifth graders. Shuang Lian Elementary School Taipei, Taiwan. Teacher: Frances Tzeng. Dragon Boat Festival. Outline. ◆ Origins 1. date 2. tradition ◆ Customs 1. food 2. activities ◆ Old Taiwanese saying. Shuang Lian Elementary School Taipei, Taiwn.

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Dragon Boat Festival

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  1. Dragon Boat Festival Fifth graders Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan Teacher: Frances Tzeng

  2. Dragon Boat Festival Outline ◆Origins 1. date 2. tradition ◆Customs 1. food 2. activities ◆Old Taiwanese saying Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwn

  3. Dragon Boat Festival Origins 1. date Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated every year on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  4. Dragon Boat Festival Origins 2. tradition The festival is held to honor the patriot poet, Chu Yuan, who threw himself into Miluo River. Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  5. Dragon Boat Festival Customs 1. food (1) People celebrate Dragon Boat Festival by eating zongzisor rice dumplings. Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  6. Dragon Boat Festival Customs-food (2) kinds of rice dumplings: salty ones and sweet ones (3) different sizes of rice dumplings Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  7. Dragon Boat Festival Customs 2. activities (1) watching dragon boat races A. What is a dragon boat? Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  8. Dragon Boat Festival Customs B. about dragon boat races Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  9. Dragon Boat Festival Customs-activity (2). fetching Noon Water Water fetched at 12:00 on Dragon Boat Festival is called Noon Water. Noon Water can cure illness. Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  10. Dragon Boat Festival Customs-activity (3). standing eggs At exactly noon, children stand a raw egg on the ground for fun. Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  11. Dragon Boat Festival Customs-activity (4). hanging Chinese herbs Taiwan people hang calamus and moxa on their front door to ward off evil and the five poisonous things. Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  12. Dragon Boat Festival Customs-activity (5). drinking Hsiung Huang wine Adults drink Hsiung Huang wine to protect themselves from the five poisonous things and evil; parents use the wine to write a Chinese character “Wang” on children’s foreheads. Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  13. Dragon Boat Festival Customs-activity (6). wearing sachets Children wear sachets with aromatic flowers and herbs inside to ward off the five poisonous things. Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  14. Dragon Boat Festival Old Taiwanes saying 五月粽未呷，破裘不願放。 If you haven’t eaten rice dumpling of Double Fifth Festival, it’s not time to put away your winter coats. Shuang Lian Elementary SchoolTaipei, Taiwan

  15. Thank you!

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