China celebrates Dragon Boat Festival
(Agencies)
Updated: 2006-05-31 22:29
Spectators watch a dragon boat race in
Qibao, an old watertown in suburbs of Shanghai, China Wednesday May 31, 2006.
Dragon boat races are in remembrance of Qu Yuan, an ancient Chinese
scholar-statesman, who drowned in 277 B.C. while denouncing government
corruption. [AP]
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