what's your plan for dragon boat festival?
as a chinese, i was really ashamed of having a little knowledge of dragon boat festival. perhaps i was born in northern city, though my city is nearby sea, it has been built a u port which i can only see cargo ships and can’t see the sweeping ocean. so i have never see the dragon boat contest since i was born. so the dragon boat festival is just a holiday for eating “zong zi”. my mother made zong zi when i was a child. because there was no supermarket, we couldn’t buy finished product from market. however, now, we can buy anything in supermarket, so my mother didn’t make them anymore. the boat festival began to fade out my mind.
in reality, young people began to have a bug to celebrate foreign festivals, such as christams, saint valentine’s day, april fool’s day, some people also celebrate easter in church. talk about dragon boat festival, it’s the same as some foreign conventional festivals, such as witch’s day in czech. people burned the witch’s puppet so as to welcome spring. some people are willing to celebrate foreign festivals because they like alien culture. and vice versa, foreigners who like china also concern about chinese traditional culture.