Shunjing community in Lixia district held an activity teaching expat students how to wrap zongzi, a festive food associated with the Duanwu Festival, on June 11.

The event aimed to help expat students learn about traditional Chinese culture and to strengthen international exchanges.

The Duanwu Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and originated in the Warring States period (475-221 BC), giving it a history of more than 2,000 years.

Traditional celebrations include eating zongzi, a pyramid-shaped glutinous rice dumpling wrapped in reed leaves, drinking realgar wine, wearing perfume satchels, and racing dragon boats.

Expat student wrap zongzi at Shunjing community to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival on June 11. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Expats learn to make perfume satchels on June 11. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Overseas students show off the perfume satchels they made on June 11. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]