The Dragon Boat Festival falls on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month. Its most enduring origin story centers on Qu Yuan, a loyal minister and one of China's earliest great poets, serving the State of Chu during the Warring States period.

🐉 Dragon Boat Festival & Zongzi: More Than Just a Rice Dumpling Today is the Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Festival), one of China’s oldest traditional holidays, celebrated for over 2,000 years in memory of the poet Qu Yuan. The festival is famous for exciting dragon boat races, colorful traditions, and of course—Zongzi (粽子). 🥟 What is Zongzi? Zongzi is a traditional Chinese rice dumpling made from glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves and tied with string before being steamed or boiled. Fillings vary by region, including red bean paste, dates, pork belly, salted egg yolk, mushrooms, and more. 📸 As shown in these images, Zongzi comes in many shapes and wrapping styles across China—from the classic triangle zongzi and pyramid zongzi to square, pillow-shaped, bamboo-tube, and even butterfly-inspired designs. Each shape reflects local culture, craftsmanship, and culinary traditions. 🌿 A simple leaf, some rice, and centuries of history—Zongzi is not just food, but a delicious symbol of family, heritage, and celebration. #DragonBoatFestival# #DuanwuFestival# #Zongzi# #ChineseCulture# #TraditionalFood# #FoodCulture# #China# #RiceDumpling# #Festival# #CulturalHeritage# #AsianFood# #FoodHistory#

Dance: Ode to the Orange Tree from Nine Pieces, is considered the earliest extant four-character ode to an object, penned over two millennia ago by the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan. #AdventuresonDragonBoatFestival2025#

Today my class teacher was teaching us how to make 粽子 (Zongzi)!😁 Zongzi is a sweet or salty sticky rice wrapped in bamboo leaves to honor the author 屈原 (Qu Yuan) who died for his country! Very yummy!😄

NEW ROBOT: First transformer humanoid ! HFUN-TECH released a robot that can autonomously reconfigure between a wheel-foot humanoid and a four-legged quadruped, switching modes on its own based on terrain via a unified control framework. You can even carry it as a suitcase, and ride it to move around! It carries a flip camera, a 45-degree tilted interaction screen and a multi-microphone array, and is pitched for home companionship, content creation and outdoor use. It debuted at the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC, July 17-20, Shanghai). I also found an alomst identical robot marketed as the "PrimeBOT Qiyuan T1" from a Shanghai startup PrimeBOT, so I cannot really make sense of it 🤔