More than 90 Teams Compete in Victoria’s Annual Dragon Boat Races & Festival August 15-17
August 6, 2007 by Robert Hutchinson
Filed under Dragon Boat Festival
More than 90 paddling teams from across North America will converge on Victoria’s Inner Harbour August 15-17th for the wildly popular annual Dragon Boat Races and Festival.
Dragon Boat Festivals – “Duan Wu Jie” in Chinese — are traditionally celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. Most believe dragon boat festivals were established to commemorate a great Chinese patriot poet, Qu Yuan.
In Victoria, the annual Dragon Boat Races and Festival are an enormous celebration of Chinese culture and life that bring thousands downtown to the Inner Harbour. More than seven dozen teams from Victoria, Vancouver Island, the Gulf Islands and throughout North America compete in elaborately decorated “dragon boats” with teams of paddlers. Read more
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