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Dragon Boat Festival celebrated across China (4)

（Xinhua）  14:00, June 11, 2013  

Competitors make zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves, at a contest during the Dragon Boat (Duanwu) Festival holiday in Yinchuan, capital of northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, June 10, 2013. The Duanwu Festival, which is celebrated across China to pay homage to Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet during the Warring State Period (475-221 BC), falls on the fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese lunar calendar, or June 12 this year. (Xinhua/Li Ran)

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（Editor：LiangJun、Yao Chun）

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