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Duan Wu Jie (Dumpling Festival) - 31 May 06
Jun 1, 2006 20:19
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No,Rita,

It depends on your company,haha:-)
Jun 1, 2006 20:29
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Some ppl said that we should have more holidays. Traditional holidays such as Duan Wu and Qingming must become an official holiday. So we can remember our tradition easily. How do u think about it??
Jun 1, 2006 20:31
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I agree with it totally!

I hope more:-)
Jun 1, 2006 20:35
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Hi California,

You are totally right. It all depends on your company.
Jun 1, 2006 20:44
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What about yours???Peacock & Rita?
Jun 9, 2008 01:26
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GUESTHELLOO i thought it was called the dragon boating festival??
Jun 9, 2008 21:24
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Dragon Boat, not Dragon Boating. The name in Chinese (pinyin) is Duan Wu Jie.
May 26, 2009 03:13
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Recently, sachets of all shapes, sizes and colors appears in big streets and small lanes, which indicates Duan Wu Jie is coming again. According to the the Chinese folklore, sachets can ward off evils, which are made up of vermilion, realgar, vanilla in side and wrapped with cloth of silk. Nowadays, sachets are used as decorations more and more.
May 28, 2009 18:17
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GUEST83129 Hi all, i am from M'sia, 15 years old, male
actually DUAN WU JIE（端午节）dumpling's is created because:
at 1st: after Qu Yuan is said to have written the lengthy poem of lamentation called "Lament for Ying" and later to have waded into the Miluo river ,because the villagers of qu yuan scare the dead body of their master to be eaten by the liver creature, so the villagers started to do many of "zhong zi" and the 1st zhong zi is only rice in it nothing special.
Until now many person have thing of adding thing in the dumpling.
And to do dumpling is to rememberence their master
Thank you for reading my reply
May 29, 2009 07:52
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Hey pinetree
Good to see u back here :)

I think it's only in Malaysia & Singapore that it's sometimes called "Dumpling Festival" which refers to the "zhong zi" that we eat.

In China and elsewhere its called Duanwu Festival or Dragonboat Festival. :)



[quote=PINETREE ,27879]That's because we are losing our traditional ties and level of Chineseness, Sayhitoant.[/quote]
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