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Rowers take paddles during the annual Dragon Boat Festival in Pitan, New Taipei city. Originally the summer event was a time to ward off bad spirits but now it is a tribuite to Qu Yuan, an ancient Chinese poet who drowned himself in a river to show his determination to oppose the corruption of the imperial court. AFP PHOTO / Mandy CHENG
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Teams take part during the annual Dragon Boat Festival in Pitan, New Taipei city. Originally the summer event was a time to ward off bad spirits but now it is a tribuite to Qu Yuan, an ancient Chinese poet who drowned himself in a river to show his determination to oppose the corruption of the imperial court. AFP PHOTO / Mandy CHENG
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A girl looks at the Zongzi modeling of sachet during the annual Dragon Boat Festival in Pitan, New Taipei city. Originally the summer event was a time to ward off bad spirits but now it is a tribuite to Qu Yuan, an ancient Chinese poet who drowned himself in a river to show his determination to oppose the corruption of the imperial court. AFP PHOTO / Mandy CHENG
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Teams take part during the annual Dragon Boat Festival in Pitan, New Taipei. Originally the summer event was a time to ward off bad spirits but now it is a tribuite to Qu Yuan, an ancient Chinese poet who drowned himself in a river to show his determination to oppose the corruption of the imperial court. AFP PHOTO / Mandy CHENG
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Chinese row a dragon boat past by a dragon statue on a bridge while celebrating the Duanwu Festival at Longtan park in Beijing. The Duanwu festival, also known as the Dragon Boat festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, commemorate the death of Qu Yuan, a famous Chinese poet from the kingdom of Chu who lived during the Warring States period. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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A Chinese actor dressed in an emperor costume pours rice dumplings near the dragon boats during a religious ritual to honor Chinese poet Qu Yuan during the Duanwu Festival at Longtan park in Beijing, China. Rice dumplings are traditionally eaten during the Duanwu festival, also known as the Dragon Boat festival, which falls on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, commemorating the death of Qu Yuan, a famous Chinese poet from the kingdom of Chu who lived during the Warring States period. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
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