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Foreign students who serve at a voluntary teaching program at a primary school in Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, learn to make zongzi, or pyramid-shaped glutinous rice dumplings wrapped in reed leaves, on May 30. The students, coming from some 10 countries, including Russia, Poland and Denmark, joined locals in a variety of Dragon Boat Festival celebrations. [Photo by Zhang Kaihu/VCG]

International students studying at Jiangsu colleges and universities tried their hand at Chinese traditions to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, which this year falls on June 7, the fifth day of the fifth lunar month on the traditional Chinese calendar.