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Dragon boat festival and black market zongziPosted by Eric Mu, June 22, 2004 2:33 PM
 The Front Page of The Day is from Beijing Daily Messenger Checking out 6 tons of black market zongzi with photo 'Zongzi' are little leaf-wrapped packets of rice and dates eaten to celebrate Dragon Boat festival or 'duanwu jie' which commemorates the death of poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself towards the end of the Warring States period (475 - 221 BC) when he heard that the Qing state had conquered the Chu. Black market zongzi means zongzi that have been made without proper food permits in unsanitary conditions.
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