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6/15/2010 China -- There's a lot more to the Dragon Boat Festival than boating and dumplings - it marks ancient midsummer rituals to placate dragons and ward off disease, pests and evil. Tan Weiyun reports.

Racing dragon boats, drinking wine and eating zongzi are traditional activities during the Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu), which falls today on the "unlucky" fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

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