More than 300 visitors and local residents gathered yesterday on a square in Huoshaoying village, Kangzhuang town, northwestern Beijing's Yanqing district, to experience the traditional Dragon Boat Festival and art of intangible cultural heritage. 

In Kangzhuang, beside enjoying an entertainment show, people made Zongzi (sticky rice dumplings, a traditional Chinese specialty for the festival) and Xiang bao (perfume sachets), played the ancient Chinese Touhu (pitch-pot) game where players throw the small wooden stick into the pot's mouth, wrote Chinese calligraphy and enjoyed ancient Chinese poem contest.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanwu Festival, occurs on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and falls on June 14 this year. It is a traditional and important celebration in China that commemorates the life and death of Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet as well as a great statesman living in the Warring States Period (476 BC - 221 BC).

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