Moon Festival for Spring Breakers?

Today I received an email from a local travel agent advertising two-day trip for Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional holiday in southern China that has just been added to the list of official Chinese holidays, creating a 3-day weekend this June 7-9.

The story of Dragon Boat Festival is that a beloved and respected poet, distraught about government corruption, threw himself into the sea in protest. The members of his community were so impressed by his devotion to right, that they threw tasty rice bundles (called "zhongzi") into the water so the monsters of the sea would eat the zhongzi instead of the poet. The poet died, but to this day everyone eats zhongzi on Dragon Boat Festival.

Back to my travel agent's email which offered more than a traditional celebration. Specifically, the advertisement reads:

What to expect on this trip? Eating zhongzi, playing volleyball and flying kite on beach, Sunshine, Beer, Experiencing fisher's lifestyle, barbecue dinner, windmill, Holland style wooden house or camping, bonfire, party, and randomly romantic.

That some serious celebration.