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Qu Yuan

This Year’s Dumpling Festival Celebrated by Baidu and Google

2011-06-06 by Aleksandr Shatskih

A performer dances at a Dragon Boat festival in Beijing

For those out there who do not know what the Duanwu Festival is, search giants Baidu and Google will have further confounded the unwary with their doodles celebrating the Dumpling Festival. Taiwan, Hong Kong, and China celebrate national holidays today.

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