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Dragon Boat Festival, a Rare card
The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Duanwu Festival or Tuen Ng Festival, is a traditional Chinese holiday that occurs on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar, which corresponds to late May or early June in the Gregorian calendar.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 84
- Power
- 157
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 230,000
Power 157 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Dragon Boat Festival quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Dragon Boat Festival card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The Dragon Boat Festival integrates praying for good luck and taking respite from the ______ heat.
Answer
summer. The Dragon Boat Festival integrates praying for good luck and taking respite from the summer heat. From the Dragon Boat Festival article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
In September ____, UNESCO officially approved the holiday's inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, becoming the first Chinese holiday to be selected.
Answer
2000s. In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved the holiday's inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, becoming the first Chinese holiday to be selected. From the Dragon Boat Festival article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Kit Carson. Kit Carson 86 · Ajinkya Rahane 79 · Spencer Cox 76 · Dragon Boat Festival 73 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The holiday commemorates Qu Yuan who was the beloved prime minister of the southern Chinese state of Chu during the Warring States period, about 600 B.C. to 200 B.C., and is celebrated by holding dragon boat races and eating sticky rice dumplings called zongzi, which were southern Chinese traditions.
- The Dragon Boat Festival integrates praying for good luck and taking respite from the summer heat.
- In September 2009, UNESCO officially approved the holiday's inclusion in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, becoming the first Chinese holiday to be selected.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Dragon Boat Festival article was read about 230,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 84: each hit it takes is cut by 34 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Dragon Boat Festival (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : After Wen Jia, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
