Grocery shops and department stores in Shanghai were thronged with Chinese customers yesterday as they were preparing to pass the Dragon Boat Festival today, the fifth day of the fifth moon. As usual, festival gifts have been exchanged among the Chinese during the past few days, but no programme of the dragon boat race as witnessed during the pre-war days has been announced although special amusement programmes have been prepared for today by Chinese theatres.
The main special delicacy for today is the "tsung tze," a con-shaped package of boiled rice mixed with sugar, pork or ham, Eggs and sweets are to Be distributed to children when bafijuéts are held at noon. The day may alsó be considered as a general house-cleaning and health campaign diy among the children, who are usually given Chinese medicines for curing summer diseases, The Chinese believe that it is most efficacious to take such medicines today
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