
May 31, 2025
Dragon Boat Festival 2025
This animated Doodle celebrates Dragon Boat Festival2025!
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About the Dragon Boat 2025 Doodle
Get ready to make a splash — this Doodle celebrates the Dragon Boat Festival! Also known as Duanwu Jie in Mandarin, it’s sometimes called the "Double Fifth Festival" because it falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. This tradition has existed for over 2,000 years, and it commemorates the life and death of the poet Qu Yuan.
The day’s most anticipated event is dragon boat racing. Across Asia, people crowd waterfronts as teams of up to 90 people pile into long, multicolored, wooden boats shaped like magnificent dragons. With a drummer setting the pace to keep paddles in sync, it's a race to snatch that flag — may the best boat win!
People snack on sticky rice dumplings called zongzi — a tasty treat that honors Qu Yuan. According to legend, after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, villagers tossed rice in to keep fish away.
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