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Dragon Boat Festival

6/11/2013

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Today is Dragon Boat Festival. Which means we have the day off from classes. Which means I should be working on my paper for my master's class. But I'm having writer's block, so I'm attempting to unblock my brain through writing about Dragon Boat Festival.

So you get to learn about a traditional Chinese holiday! Lucky you!

As far as Matt and I are concerned, Dragon Boat Festival (or 端午节, duan1 wu3 jie2) is not one of the more enjoyable Chinese holidays, mainly because of the snack that is commonly eaten for Dragon Boat Festival and that our students are fond of giving us around the time of the festival. Zongzi:

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Zongzi is the traditional food eaten for Dragon Boat Festival (at least in Tianjin). It's basically sticky glutinous rice mixed with maybe some red bean or a little bit of meat, wrapped in a big leaf. It kind of reminds me of some zhou (congee, 粥) that's been left sitting out too long. And was then wrapped in a giant leaf for some reason. I don't know, we just don't think it tastes that good. Some of our students love them, but most admit to us that they also don't like zongzi very much, which is I guess why they try to pawn them off on us.

So far we've managed to stay zongzi-free the whole day, but we're going to a birthday dinner tonight for one of our Chinese friends, so we'll see if we can keep the zongzi away throughout dinner too...
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