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(240607) -- HARBIN, June 7, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- An examinee touches a handicraft in the shape of zongzi, a traditional Chinese food to mark the Dragon Boat Festival, before entering a national college entrance examination site in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, June 7, 2024. China's national college entrance examination, known as the Gaokao, started on Friday. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wang Jianwei)

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(240607) -- CHENGDU, June 7, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- People shop for Zongzi, a traditional Chinese food to mark the Dragon Boat Festival, at a market in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 7, 2024. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's major traditional holidays, falling on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which falls on June 10 this year. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Shen Bohan)

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(240607) -- CHENGDU, June 7, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Staff members make Zongzi, a traditional Chinese food to mark the Dragon Boat Festival, at a shop in a market in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 7, 2024. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's major traditional holidays, falling on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which falls on June 10 this year. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Shen Bohan)

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(240607) -- CHENGDU, June 7, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Staff members make Zongzi, a traditional Chinese food to mark the Dragon Boat Festival, at a shop in a market in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 7, 2024. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's major traditional holidays, falling on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which falls on June 10 this year. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Shen Bohan)

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(240607) -- CHENGDU, June 7, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- People shop for Zongzi, a traditional Chinese food to mark the Dragon Boat Festival, at a market in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 7, 2024. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's major traditional holidays, falling on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which falls on June 10 this year. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Shen Bohan)

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(240607) -- CHENGDU, June 7, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A staff member arranges bundles of freshly-made Zongzi, a traditional Chinese food to mark the Dragon Boat Festival, at a shop in a market in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 7, 2024. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's major traditional holidays, falling on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which falls on June 10 this year. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Shen Bohan)

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Dragon Boat Festival HUZHOU, CHINA - JUNE 6, 2024 - Residents make zongzi at the Happiness Canteen of Qunan Community, Wukang Street, Deqing County, Huzhou city, East China s Zhejiang province, June 6, 2024. Huzhou Zhejiang China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717654033164

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Dragon Boat Festival HUZHOU, CHINA - JUNE 6, 2024 - Residents make zongzi at the Happiness Canteen of Qunan Community, Wukang Street, Deqing County, Huzhou city, East China s Zhejiang province, June 6, 2024. Huzhou Zhejiang China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717654032619

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Dragon Boat Festival HUZHOU, CHINA - JUNE 6, 2024 - Residents make zongzi at the Happiness Canteen of Qunan Community, Wukang Street, Deqing County, Huzhou city, East China s Zhejiang province, June 6, 2024. Huzhou Zhejiang China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717654033375

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(240607) -- CHENGDU, June 7, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A shop owner arranges bundles of mugwort for the Dragon Boat Festival at a flower shop in Chengdu, southwest China's Sichuan Province, June 6, 2024. The Dragon Boat Festival is one of China's major traditional holidays, falling on the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, which falls on June 10 this year. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Xu Bingjie)

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Dragon Boat Festival HUZHOU, CHINA - JUNE 6, 2024 - Residents make zongzi at the Happiness Canteen of Qunan Community, Wukang Street, Deqing County, Huzhou city, East China s Zhejiang province, June 6, 2024. Huzhou Zhejiang China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717654032977

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(240606) -- BEIJING, June 6, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- This photo taken on June 5, 2024 shows a scene of the dragon boat race at Longtan Park in Dongcheng District in Beijing, capital of China. The 2024 Longtan Duanwu cultural event was held here on Wednesday, featuring a variety of activities such as dragon boat races and stage performances. Duanwu, or the Dragon Boat Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar to commemorate ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan from the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.). Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Ju Huanzong)

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(240605) -- BEIJING, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Visitors enjoy a traditional cultural performance on the theme of Duanwu at Longtan Park in Dongcheng District in Beijing, capital of China, June 5, 2024. The 2024 Longtan Duanwu cultural event was held here on Wednesday, featuring a variety of activities such as dragon boat races and stage performances. Duanwu, or the Dragon Boat Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar to commemorate ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan from the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.). Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Ju Huanzong)

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(240605) -- BEIJING, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Visitors watch a dragon boat race at Longtan Park in Dongcheng District in Beijing, capital of China, June 5, 2024. The 2024 Longtan Duanwu cultural event was held here on Wednesday, featuring a variety of activities such as dragon boat races and stage performances. Duanwu, or the Dragon Boat Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar to commemorate ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan from the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.). Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Ju Huanzong)

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(240605) -- BEIJING, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Visitors watch a dragon boat race at Longtan Park in Dongcheng District in Beijing, capital of China, June 5, 2024. The 2024 Longtan Duanwu cultural event was held here on Wednesday, featuring a variety of activities such as dragon boat races and stage performances. Duanwu, or the Dragon Boat Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar to commemorate ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan from the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.). Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Ju Huanzong)

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(240605) -- BEIJING, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- This photo taken on June 5, 2024 shows a scene of the dragon boat race at Longtan Park in Dongcheng District in Beijing, capital of China. The 2024 Longtan Duanwu cultural event was held here on Wednesday, featuring a variety of activities such as dragon boat races and stage performances. Duanwu, or the Dragon Boat Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar to commemorate ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan from the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.). Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Ju Huanzong)

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(240605) -- BEIJING, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A child tries Tuye (a traditional Chinese figurine and auspicious symbol) coloring at Longtan Park in Dongcheng District in Beijing, capital of China, June 5, 2024. The 2024 Longtan Duanwu cultural event was held here on Wednesday, featuring a variety of activities such as dragon boat races and stage performances. Duanwu, or the Dragon Boat Festival, is celebrated on the fifth day of the fifth month on the Chinese lunar calendar to commemorate ancient Chinese poet Qu Yuan from the Warring States Period (475-221 B.C.). Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Ju Huanzong)

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(240607) -- TEHRAN, June 7, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- People make Zongzi, a traditional Chinese food to mark the Dragon Boat Festival, during a party organized by the Chinese Embassy in Iran, in the Iranian capital Tehran, June 5, 2024. More than 50 people attended the party. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Shadati)

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(240607) -- TEHRAN, June 7, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- People show Zongzi, a traditional Chinese food to mark the Dragon Boat Festival, during a party organized by the Chinese Embassy in Iran, in the Iranian capital Tehran, June 5, 2024. More than 50 people attended the party. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Shadati)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Fang Shaohuang checks a completed dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, May 23, 2023. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Fang Shaohuang checks a completed dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, May 23, 2023. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Fang Shaohuang wipes the head of a dragon boat before delivering it to a customer at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Workers make a dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker paints the head of a dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Fang Shaohuang (L) teaches his nephew Fang Jianwei to make dragon boats at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Fang Shaohuang (2nd R) discusses with his family on the making of dragon boats at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A dragon boat is pictured at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker makes dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker uses an ink marker to draw straight lines for a dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker makes a dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Fang Shaohuang makes a dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker makes a dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker makes a dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Workers make a dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker paints the heads of dragon boats at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Fang Jianwei, a fourth-generation inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, makes a dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, June 3, 2024. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240602) -- HAIKOU, June 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Workers pack Zongzi at a sales company in Ding'an County, south China's Hainan Province, June 2, 2024. This year's Dragon Boat Festival falls on June 10, when Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves for this occasion, will be in great demand. Zongzi processing factories in Ding'an County are in a buzz to get these delis ready. Zongzi of Ding'an has been long appreciated by consumers all over the country, and its industrialized production plays an important role in promoting rural revitalization and boosting local economy in the county. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zhang Liyun)

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(240602) -- HAIKOU, June 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Workers pack Zongzi at a food company in Ding'an County, south China's Hainan Province, June 2, 2024. This year's Dragon Boat Festival falls on June 10, when Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves for this occasion, will be in great demand. Zongzi processing factories in Ding'an County are in a buzz to get these delis ready. Zongzi of Ding'an has been long appreciated by consumers all over the country, and its industrialized production plays an important role in promoting rural revitalization and boosting local economy in the county. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zhang Liyun)

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(240602) -- HAIKOU, June 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker packs Zongzi at a food company in Ding'an County, south China's Hainan Province, June 2, 2024. This year's Dragon Boat Festival falls on June 10, when Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves for this occasion, will be in great demand. Zongzi processing factories in Ding'an County are in a buzz to get these delis ready. Zongzi of Ding'an has been long appreciated by consumers all over the country, and its industrialized production plays an important role in promoting rural revitalization and boosting local economy in the county. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zhang Liyun)

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(240602) -- HAIKOU, June 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker arranges Zongzi at a food company in Ding'an County, south China's Hainan Province, June 2, 2024. This year's Dragon Boat Festival falls on June 10, when Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves for this occasion, will be in great demand. Zongzi processing factories in Ding'an County are in a buzz to get these delis ready. Zongzi of Ding'an has been long appreciated by consumers all over the country, and its industrialized production plays an important role in promoting rural revitalization and boosting local economy in the county. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zhang Liyun)

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(240602) -- HAIKOU, June 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker arranges Zongzi gift boxes at a food company in Ding'an County, south China's Hainan Province, June 2, 2024. This year's Dragon Boat Festival falls on June 10, when Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves for this occasion, will be in great demand. Zongzi processing factories in Ding'an County are in a buzz to get these delis ready. Zongzi of Ding'an has been long appreciated by consumers all over the country, and its industrialized production plays an important role in promoting rural revitalization and boosting local economy in the county. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zhang Liyun)

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(240602) -- HAIKOU, June 2, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- A worker arranges Zongzi at a food company in Ding'an County, south China's Hainan Province, June 2, 2024. This year's Dragon Boat Festival falls on June 10, when Zongzi, a pyramid-shaped dumpling made of glutinous rice wrapped in bamboo or reed leaves for this occasion, will be in great demand. Zongzi processing factories in Ding'an County are in a buzz to get these delis ready. Zongzi of Ding'an has been long appreciated by consumers all over the country, and its industrialized production plays an important role in promoting rural revitalization and boosting local economy in the county. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Zhang Liyun)

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139438279

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139438050

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139437699

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139437385

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139437116

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139436694

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139436455

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139359040

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139358804

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139358492

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139353496

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139352962

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139354305

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139354701

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139355375

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139355072

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139355694

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Giant Dragon Boats Racing in Yiyang YIYANG, CHINA - MAY 31, 2024 - Giant 100-meter dragon boats race welcomes the upcoming Chinese traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival on the Lanxi River in Yiyang city, Hunan province, China, May 31, 2024. Yiyang Hunan China PUBLICATIONxNOTxINxCHN Copyright: xCFOTOx i1717139355990

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Fang Jianwei, a fourth-generation inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, wipes a completed dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, May 31, 2023. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Fang Shaohuang (2nd R) gives instructions as workers manage to transport a dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, May 31, 2023. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Fang Shaohuang checks a completed dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, May 23, 2023. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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(240605) -- FUZHOU, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Fang Shaohuang checks a completed dragon boat at a dragon boat factory in Fangzhuang Village, Fuzhou City of southeast China's Fujian Province, May 23, 2023. As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, workers in Fangzhuang Village are working flat out to service orders for dragon boats from both home and abroad. Dubbed "the Dragon Boat Village", Fangzhuang has a history of dragon boat making for over 700 years. Every year, over 200 boats are sold from here to the world. Fang Shaohuang, an inheritor of Fangzhuang dragon boat making skills, a Fuzhou city-level intangible cultural heritage, has been fixing and making dragon boats for over 50 years. As the third-generation inheritor of the family, Fang has insisted in making traditional boats only by hands with tools inherited from elder generations. According to Fang, making a dragon boat needs to be particular both in selecting raw materials and in making procedures. The boat mainly uses over 40-year-old Chinese fir wood or camphorwood grown up in the northern mountainous area of Fujian Province as the materials, and it needs to go through numerous processes such as making the frames, polishing, drawing, painting and installing the finely carved dragon head, before finally completed. "I hope the traditional craft will be passed down for generations, and more people can have the chance to know the culture of dragon boat," said Fang Shaohuang. Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM/Wei Peiquan)

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