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According to the Chinese lunar calendar, today is Duanwujie (端午節), or the Dragon Boat Festival. Celebrating this holiday includes eating zongzi (粽子), glutinous rice wrapped and cooked in bamboo leaves, racing dragon boats, and drinking realgar wine. I've never drank this wine before. Realgar is an arsenic sulfide mineral, the wine has the mineral mixed into it, and I'm pretty sure it would taste nasty.
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