Dragon Boat Festival

Today is some Chinese festival...where the Chinese race boats...with very interesting decorations....Mythologically, there was a period when the Chinese King (the Chu Government) used to be a tyrant and there was a very famous poet (Qu Yuan) who tried to give advice to the King to correct him but failed...Having failed too many times, he committed suicide by drowning into the river and there are two branches to the story now....one says...the boats are raced in an attempt to try to find his body before any sea animals end up troubling the body....the other says....the boats are raced with the big drums to scare away fishes...so they wont eat the poet's body....thanks to wiki...I know so much...there is another aspect as well, they eat rice dumplings wrapped in bamboo...


We had been off to see this event at the Stanley Market....The race and all were pretty neat and the beach was a good place to look at but it was a little disappointing that the boat decorations were no where close to what is seen in snaps if u google...I guess the Stanley Market Boat Race wasnt the best place...I hear Sha Tin in New Territories probably is the best....Check out one of the snaps.....the decorations were really minor compared some of the other boat racing festivals I have seen....



But overall an average day....Came back from this...had a long freewheeling argument on nothing with two of my other bachelor friends here....n then slept...woke up...lazed around...in effect doing nothing :)