Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Duan Wu Festival [6]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duanwu_Festival

<--That's today! Most uneventful day ever. Holiday from work and no rice dumplings. (Thank goodness! I've had enough of those this summer to be done with them for the rest of the year!) I count it as one of my weaknesses that I get tired of eating foods rather quickly even if they happen to be delicious.

A coworker told me a different version of the story behind the holiday where QuYuan was emo, got drunk, saw the reflection of the moon in the river, thought it was beautiful, chased after it and drowned. I couldn't find this version of the story online in English; but the way she told it, it was quite poetic.

端午節快樂!

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