Q 01/05

Which festival is considered the most important one in China?

A) New Year

B) Mid-Autumn

C) Dragon Boat

D) Lantern

Answer · why

A) New Year

It is also celebrated across overseas Chinese communities from Malaysia to the United States.

Q 02/05

Which food is eaten at the Duanwu, or Double Fifth, holiday?

A) Mooncakes

B) Zongzi

C) Tangyuan

D) Laba congee

Answer · why

B) Zongzi

The sticky rice dumplings are wrapped in reed or bamboo leaves into a pyramid shape.

Q 03/05

On which date of the Chinese calendar are dragon boats traditionally raced?

A) Ninth day of the ninth month

B) Seventh day of the seventh month

C) Fifth day of the fifth month

D) Fifteenth day of the first month

Answer · why

C) Fifth day of the fifth month

Hence its other English name, the Double Fifth Festival; it lands in late May or early June.

Q 04/05

Dragon boat races commemorate which poet and minister of the state of Chu?

A) Li Bai

B) Confucius

C) Du Fu

D) Qu Yuan

Answer · why

D) Qu Yuan

Banished for opposing an alliance with Qin, he drowned himself in the Miluo River in despair.

Q 05/05

In which waterway did Qu Yuan drown himself?

A) The Miluo

B) The Yellow River

C) The Yangtze

D) The Pearl

Answer · why

A) The Miluo

Locals raced out in boats to save him, which is said to be the origin of dragon boat racing.