The Hunan University of Chinese Medicine held an event themed Duanwu Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, and traditional Chinese medicine on May 27, ahead of the upcoming traditional Chinese festival. International students, dressed in Hanfu (traditional Chinese attire), wrapped zongzi with Chinese wolfberry and other medicinal and food ingredients. They also immersed themselves in learning Baduanjin, a set of traditional Chinese fitness exercises combining physical movement with breathing and meditation. This enabled students to experience the customs of Dragon Boat Festival and the charm of traditional Chinese medical culture. The photo above shows international students making sachets. (Photo/Yang Huafeng, Chinanews)

International students try their hand at moxibustion, a traditional Chinese acupuncture therapy in which moxa sticks or cones – made from mugwort leaves – are burned on or near one's acupuncture points on the body. (Photo/Yang Huafeng, Chinanews)

An international student learns Baduanjin from a teacher. (Photo/Yang Huafeng, Chinanews)

International students join in wrapping zongzi. (Photo/Yang Huafeng, Chinanews)

International students learn to make sachets. (Photo/Yang Huafeng, Chinanews)

International students try to throw sachets into baskets like Touhu, a traditional game of throwing arrows into a pot. (Photo/Yang Huafeng, Chinanews)

This article is from the Hunan Provincial Government www.enghunan.gov.cn.

Translator: Yu Jiangjiang

Chinese source: Chinanews