Folk artists, dressed in traditional costumes, beat drums to celebrate Duan Wu culture festival ahead of the imminent Chinese traditional Duan Wu festival in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province May 27, 2006. The festival, also known as Dragon boat festival, which falls on fifth day of the of the fifth lunar month, is held to commemorate Quyuan, a patriotic poet in ancient China who drowned himself in despair in the Milo River(in Hunan province) on that day. [Xinhua]

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