The spirit of a festival

It is its cultural connotation that has been sustaining the Dragon Boat Festival which fell yesterday for more than 2,000 years.

And it is a range of customs with local flavor that have carried the cultural connotation for that many years. They include dragon boat race, eating pyramid-shaped glutinous rice dumplings, hanging pyramid-shaped cloth decorations and so on. Without these traditions, the festival would not have continued to be observed until today.

Behind the call for the restoration of traditional culture in recent years is the anxiety that many people feel for the possible loss of cultural connotations supporting our festivals.