dragon boat festival '05 edition
today's topics:
1. what is 端午節 or in English, the Dragon Boat Festival?
2. how is this holiday celebrated? (aside from dragon boat racing as you can glean from the name.)
3. what are the origins of this holiday? there's the well-known version of the origin of this festival, and then there are some other not so well-known ones.
photos of the 粽子 (sticky rice wrapped in leaves) I mentioned in the podcast:
(click for a larger view)
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Sept. 17, 2007 update:
my free podcast host Rizzn.net has ceased to exist since 2005, and I lost the
original files, so the audio podcast file in this post is forever gone, i guess.
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