The coordinated and cooperative teamwork effort of a dragon boat team in the annual Dragon Boat race in Taipei, Taiwan
A dragon boat team participates in the annual Dragon Boat race on the Keelung River in Taipei, Taiwan. The race is part of the Duanwu Festival, also known as Dragon Boat Festival. The festival is traditionally connected to the death of Qu Yuan, a poet and a minister in the ancient state of Chu. When the king decided to enter into an alliance with the powerful state of Qin, Qu was accused of treason and banished for having opposed the alliance. When Qin later captured the Chu capital, Qu Yuan committed suicide by drowning himself. People raced out in their boats to save him or retrieve his body, which is traditionally seen as the beginning of the dragon boat race. When they couldn't find the body, they dropped balls of sticky rice into the river so that the fish would eat them instead of Qu Yuan's body, which is said to be the origin of the zongzi — sticky rice with pork wrapped in a bamboo leave — that are traditionally eaten during the festival.
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Location: Keelung River, Taipei, Taiwan
Photo credit: © Perry Svensson / Alamy / Afripics
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