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The implication of phoenix catching ducks

It means Dragon Boat Festival is a good color.

Snatching ducks is a traditional folk custom of Dragon Boat Festival in Fenghuang Ancient City, Xiangxi, Hunan Province, with a long history. After the Dragon Boat Festival, the highlight of Phoenix Dragon Boat Festival is catching ducks. Many residents and tourists jumped into the river and competed for the ducks thrown from the diaojiao building to celebrate the arrival of the Dragon Boat Festival. On that day, in addition to the traditional folk custom of "grabbing ducks", there were also eating zongzi and racing dragon boats, all of which were traditional folk activities that had been circulated for a hundred years.