Paintings about the Dragon Boat Festival
Updated: 2013-06-07 14:39
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For the Dragon Boat Festival, people also shoot arrows and hang portraits of Zhong Kui. According to The History in the Jin Dynasty• Ceremonies (Jin Shi•Li Zhi), in the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, people would ride a horse, shoot arrows at willow branches and try to take the branches. In the Ming Dynasty, such a game had also become a show among noblemen.
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