Expatriates in Yinchuan, capital city of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, gathered to have a taste of delicious Dragon Boat Festival delicacies and more.

Duanwu Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, is traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar.

The Dragon Boat Festival commemorates the death of Qu Yuan (340-278 B.C.), a well-known Chinese poet and minister of the State of Chu during the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.)

He drowned himself in the Miluo River after he was banished and accused of treason for his well-intended advice to the king.

Legend has it that upon learning of his death, locals raced boats to find his body in the river and dropped rice in the water in the hope that it would distract fish from eating the body.

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