BEIJING — Dragon boat races, lion dances and other festivities marked the Dragon Boat Festival on Friday across mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The more than 2,000-year-old holiday is best known ...

If you haven't experienced a Chinese Dragon Boat Festival in person, you're missing out on something genuinely wild. Come June, the country basically erupts. Everyone stops what they're doing for this ...

As the two-day dragon boat races started on Friday, Zheng witnessed something that he had feared might never happen again: ...

Dragon boat races drew large crowds and strong participation across China during this year’s Dragon Boat Festival, with events held nationwide despite heavy rainfall in many areas. The three-day ...

When you’re doing dragon boating right, you begin to fly. Imagine rowing a 43-foot-long boat with about 20 other people. Everyone has placed their trust in a drummer at the front, who dictates the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PAWTUCKET, R.I. (WPRI) — The Rhode Island Chinese Dragon Boat Races and Taiwan Day Festival took place Saturday. The annual event ...

The festival is widely associated with the ancient poet Qu Yuan, who according to legend drowned himself more than 2,000 years ago. “The fact that this holiday has been preserved for thousands of ...

“The fact that this holiday has been preserved for thousands of years shows how much we value our traditional customs,” said Meng Dongmei, a retired resident of Beijing’s Tongzhou district. Meng said ...