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Yueyang to hold International Dragon Boat Race
www.chinanews.cn 2005-04-11 13:33:18
Chinanews, Apr. 11 - Yueyang City, Hunan Province will hold the
International Dragon Boat Race on June 11th, the Dragon Boat Festival of
the lunar calendar, on the Miluo River, where Qu Yuan drowned himself. In
addition to the boat race, the city will host various events such as
business promotion, tourism, arts performances and forums.
Yueyang, the "City of the Dragon Boat," and the Miluo River which runs
through it, are the cradles of dragon boat culture. On May 5th of the
lunar calendar, 278 BC, Qu Yuan, the patriotic poet, drowned himself in
the Miluo River. In order to commemorate the poet and his world-famous
celebrity, Yueyang City held ten consecutive international dragon boat
races in the 1980s and 1990s. More than 100 teams from all over the world
participate in the competitions.
The Yueyang government will invite dragon boat teams from more than
twenty countries including the U.S., the U.K., Australia as well as the
Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macao regions to the 2005 competition.
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