The crowds were able to return to the sands of the main beach in Stanley this year. Read more at straitstimes.com.
HONG KONG - Hong Kong’s famous Dragon Boat Festival drew thousands of spectators on Thursday, reviving the tradition after the“During the pandemic, I watched the races on TV, but of course it’s more fun to be here,” Mr Cheuk Shum, 43, told AFP.
“At the time, I was on a trip to Japan during the festival, and afterwards... Covid, Covid, Covid”, he said. The holiday, observed in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Macau, is by local lore a commemoration of Qu Yuan, a Chinese poet of the Warring States period who is said to have drowned himself in a river after being falsely accused of treason.
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