What activities are held in the country to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

1. South Korea: South Korea has many colorful Dragon Boat Festival activities, and they basically hold some activities during the Dragon Boat Festival. Such as taekwondo competitions, wrestling, swinging, pot throwing and other activities. A few years ago, Koreans applied for the Dragon Boat Festival to be a World Heritage Site, which caused a lot of publicity in the country. In fact, the so-called application of the Dragon Boat Festival as a World Heritage by Koreans is just an application for a traditional activity and does not mean competing with China for the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival. Koreans have celebrated the Dragon Boat Festival for more than a thousand years.

2. Japan: The Dragon Boat Festival in Japan has lost its original flavor. Japan's Dragon Boat Festival was introduced from China after the Heian period. At that time, the Japanese, like the Chinese, also ate rice dumplings and drank calamus wine. Interestingly, because the pronunciations of Iris and Shangwu are similar, the Dragon Boat Festival has now become a boys’ festival in Japan. The carp streamer, a flag that prays for the healthy growth of boys, will also be flown throughout Japan during the Dragon Boat Festival. Because the carp streamer means carp jumping over the dragon gate.

As Chinese people continue to go overseas, the Dragon Boat Festival also follows Chinese immigrants to the world. Now in some places in the United States, dragon boating has become a popular local sport and is welcomed by the locals.