Writing assignment by Yu ZHANG https://padlet.com/zhangyu7/jycvngohxism en-us 2019-02-24 12:02:26 UTC 2025-10-27 16:44:00 UTC hello@padlet.com Lily zhangyu7 https://padlet.com/zhangyu7/jycvngohxism/wish/334557369 The Dragon Boat Festival， also called the Duanwu Festival， is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month according to the Chinese calendar. This festival is to commemorate the death of QU Yuan， an upright and honest poet and statesman who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.


 The most important activity of this festival is the Dragon Boat races. It symbolizes people‘s attempts to rescue Qu Yuan. In the current period， these races also demonstrate the virtues of cooperation and teamwork.
]]> 2019-02-24 12:05:03 UTC https://padlet.com/zhangyu7/jycvngohxism/wish/334557369 zhangyu7 https://padlet.com/zhangyu7/jycvngohxism/wish/334557606 August 15th in Chinese Lunar Calendar is the Mid-Autumn Day. It is one of the most important traditional festivals in China. 

The moon is the brightest this night. People eat the delicious food while they are enjoying a beautiful full moon in their yard. At this time, some old people would like to tell many past events and tell the children a story about the rabbit on the moon . The children really believe that there is a rabbit on the moon. They hope to go to the moon and have a look one day.
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