Participants compete in a dragon boat race during a dragon boat carnival on the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, June 2, 2013. The event was held as a means to celebrate the upcoming Dragon Boat Festival, or Duanwu Festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, or June 12 this year. (Xinhua/Han Hua)