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On the occasion of the Dragon Boat Festival, students of the Sinology program at the Department of Far East Studies of the Faculty of Humanities at Tbilisi State University engaged in a series of activities.
The Sinology program students presented poems by Chinese authors and their own translations of those works. The audience was afforded the opportunity to listen to Chinese songs and observe dances performed by the students, as well as view paintings created about the Dragon Boat Festival.
The event was attended by a number of distinguished guests, including representatives of the Chinese Embassy in Georgia, professors and teachers, students, and invited guests.
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese holiday that occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar.
According to legend, the holiday commemorates Chinese patriot poet Qu Yuan who was the beloved prime minister of the southern Chinese state of Chu during the Warring States period. After the fall of the Chu kingdom, Qu Yuan committed suicide by drowning himself in the river. It is said that the local people, who admired him, raced out in their boats to save him, or at least retrieve his body. This is said to have been the origin of dragon boat races. Nowadays, every Dragon Boat Festival features a boat competition with specially made wooden boats decorated and painted to look like a dragon.
