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Chinese Summer Camp 2010 Hosted by The Confucius Institute at The University of Akron

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Issue 3– Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Today we are celebrating:

Duanwu Festival (Chinese: 端午節 ) , also

known as Dragon Boat Festival , is a tradi-

tional and statutory holiday associated

with Chinese and other East Asian

and Southeast Asian societies as

well. It is a public holiday in

mainland China,where it is known by

the Mandarin name Duānwǔ

Jié. The festival is also cele-

brated in countries with sig-

nificant Chinese populations,

such as in Singapore and Ma-

laysia. Equivalent and related fes-

tivals outside Chinese-speaking societies in-

clude the Kodomo no hi in Japan, Dano in Korea,

and Tết Đoan Ngọ in Vietnam.The festival occurs on

the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar

on which the Chinese calendar is based. This is the

source of the alternative name of Double Fifth. In

2009 this falls on May 28 and in 2010 on June 16. The

focus of the celebrations includes eating the rice

dumpling zongzi, drinking realgar wine xionghuang-

jiu, and racing dragon boats.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

The Cleveland Dragon Boat and

Flats Oxbow Associations proudly

present the 2010 Cleveland

Dragon Boat Festival . Last year's

festival was an awesome event,

and we are looking forward to even more excitement in 2010!

http://clevelanddragonboatfestival.com/index.php

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Zon is a massively

multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG). It provides

an immersive game environment of a virtual modern China to stimu-

late and sustain players' interest in Chinese language, to enhance their

understanding of Chinese culture, and to help them grasp basic communicative Chinese. To

register and play (with the permission of your parents) go to:

http://EnterZon.com

Other computer sites to explore to learn more about China and Chinese

Language & Culture: Visit the World Expo in Shanghai at:

http://en.expo.cn/index.html#lang=t&c=home

More games and language practice:

http://www.digitaldialects.com/Chinese.htm

http://www.uni.edu/becker/chinese2.html#games

http://accesschinese.com/index.htm

Simple Chinese Character Pinyin (pronunciation) English

写 xiě write

宣纸 xuān zhǐ rice paper

书法 shū fǎ calligraphy

汉字 zì Chinese character

电脑游戏 diàn nǎo yóu xì computer game

端午节 duānwǔ jie The Dragon Boat Festival