Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival is one of three important festivals with Chinese New Year and Mid Autumn Festival. It is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. This festival is in memory of the poet, Chu Yuan. He was a public servant in 2000 years ago. He saw his country was overthrown by another country. He felt very sad, so he jumped into the river. All the people in his country respected him because he was a devoted patriot. Some people drove boats and tried to find his corpse. Some people were afraid his body was eaten by fish or shrimp so they made a lot of rice balls and threw them into the river. Fish would eat those rice balls instead of eating his body. The fifth day of the fifth lunar month was the day he committed suicide. Thus, people started to memorialize this day. Until now, when this day came, we have dragon boat race. This race is not only to memorialize the patriot Chu Yuan but also to challenge the team of cooperation. For the food, we eat sticky rice ball on this day. The sticky rice ball is made by rice, egg, mushroom, etc. and use dry bamboo leaf to pack it. Actually, different parts of Taiwan have different taste for the sticky rice ball but the purpose is same to celebrate this day.

According to the lunar calendar, summer is coming after the dragon boat festival. There are many diseases that happen in summer. In order to prevent those evils and diseases, we hang bunches of moxa, a kind of herb, on the front door. For children, they wear the fragrant bag to keep the evils and diseases away.

The last activity we usually do is to stand an egg on the floor. If we can successfully stand an egg on its end at 12 noon that means we will be lucky people in the coming year.

Therefore, dragon boat festival is one important day for us.

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Halloween Fever in CESL at SIUC

Halloween is such a fun day in the US. Although it is a ghost day, it is a totally different ghost day with Asia. There are many taboos during ghost day in Asia. Everybody is careful when they do everything. Most of parents do not allow their children to go out at night or go swimming when the ghost day comes. In the Asia’s culture, everybody respects the ghost month. Many children are scared that this month comes. Nevertheless in the US, everybody fevers in this day especially CESL at SIUC. CESL prepared a lot of candies and gave to all the students. Some of CESL teachers and students dressed up in different roles. A number of teachers wore similar to an angel. Some of teachers wore as a devil. All teachers and students took a lot of pictures. Everybody enjoyed this day. After end of this party, students kept talking about the teacher’s dressing. Many students thought that the top two dressed up teachers were Mr. Weiner and Miss Farrar. Students didn’t know who they were when they appeared. Most of students felt amazing because they were absolutely different with their real style. Halloween fever is an especial experience for all internal students. This is a good way to learn the US culture as well. CESL teachers and students were mad in this day.

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