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+ | ====== A Chinese Danish Cultural Fusion. ====== | ||
+ | On the 23'rd of June, Danish and Chinese both celebrate each their own event, In China the celebration is the Dragon Boat Festival (Mandarin: Duānwǔ; Cantonese: Tuen Ng), in Denmark to celebrate Midsummer. | ||
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+ | You can read more on my homepage about how this cultural fusion turned out. | ||
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+ | Witches and the abolishing of witch burning is also a central theme as the bonfire traditionally will have a wooden/ | ||
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+ | In Denmark the last witch was decapitated and then burned on April 4'th 1693 - Good thing that times have changed and that we are no longer slaves of superstition from the dark ages. | ||
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+ | So there you have it two cultures celebrating each their tradition on the same day. | ||
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+ | We did have Zhongzi thanks to my mother in law's cooking skills, though we had them without the traditional leaves due to the acute lack of bamboo in Denmark :) and later we attending the biggest bonfire event in Copenhagen. How's that for cultural fusion! | ||