Origins
What is South?
Name one food eaten during the Dragon Boat Festival.
What is zongzi/jiandui/springrolls/dagao?
Name one form of entertainment during the Dragon Boat Festival.
What is dragon boat racing/eating festival food/hanging plants/wearing colorful bracelets?
The time of year which the festival occurs is also the ___ solstice.
The festival dates back at least ___ years.
What is 1,500?
Why does dragon dancing involve loud noises?
To ward off evil spirits.
What do people race in during this festival?
What is dragon boats?
The Dragon Boat festival is also referred to as the double fifth festival for this reason.
It takes place on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.
Why were early examples of the festival held to balance the energies of yin and yang?
Dragon dancing involves both ___ and ____.
Loud noises and dance movements.
What did dragons symbolize?
What is power?
During this time, dragons were believed to help with __ cultivation.
Early examples of this festival were seen as ways to promote plentiful _____.
What is rice harvests?
Celebration of the Dragon Boat Festival is especially popular among which social classes?
What is Middle and lower class?
A tradition performed to ward off evil spirits.
What is dragon dancing?
During the time of this festival, people hung __ to avoid evil spirits.
What is branches?
An honored poet that drowned himself as an act of protest.
Who is Qu Yuan?
People hang these in their doorways as a way to ward off evil.
What is Plants?
The silk-thread bracelets often worn are usually this/these "lucky" color(s):
Why was the fifth month considered to be bad luck?
Poisonous animals came out during this time of year.