Today is Duanwu Jie, or Dragon Boat Festival, one of the most important festivals in China. Chinese people r the great patriotic poet (爱国诗人) QuYuan by rowing dragon boats and making zongzi on this day.
My village is famous for its great protection of traditional c and we have the best dragon boat race team of the city. Every year, villagers raise our dragon boats from under the river about a month before the festival. And then it is c cleaned and repainted. Our dragon boat is already 40 years old. Made of a special kind of wood, it is still strong enough to l for a long time.
This year, my elder brother is accepted into our dragon boat race team as its youngest member. He's only 18, and I'm so p of him.
