National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario, Chinese Embassy Counsellor Zheng Junlyu, poets Vim Madera, University of the Philippines professor; Mike Coroza, Ateneo de Manila University professor; and Pandesal Forum moderator Wilson Lee Flores celebrate the Balagtasan and Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is on June 22. The 2,300-year-old event honors Qu Yuan with dragon boat racing and eating of Machang glutinous rice dumplings. Zheng talked about the common love for poetry of China and the Philippines, extolling the poems and heroism of Qu Yuan and the beautiful Filipino tradition of Balagtasan.PHOTO BY BENEDICT ABAYGAR, JR.National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario, Chinese Embassy Counsellor Zheng Junlyu, poets Vim Madera, University of the Philippines professor; Mike Coroza, Ateneo de Manila University professor; and Pandesal Forum moderator Wilson Lee Flores celebrate the Balagtasan and Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is on June 22. The 2,300-year-old event honors Qu Yuan with dragon boat racing and eating of Machang glutinous rice dumplings. Zheng talked about the common love for poetry of China and the Philippines, extolling the poems and heroism of Qu Yuan and the beautiful Filipino tradition of Balagtasan.PHOTO BY BENEDICT ABAYGAR, JR.National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario, Chinese Embassy Counsellor Zheng Junlyu, poets Vim Madera, University of the Philippines professor; Mike Coroza, Ateneo de Manila University professor; and Pandesal Forum moderator Wilson Lee Flores celebrate the Balagtasan and Dragon Boat Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is on June 22. The 2,300-year-old event honors Qu Yuan with dragon boat racing and eating of Machang glutinous rice dumplings. Zheng talked about the common love for poetry of China and the Philippines, extolling the poems and heroism of Qu Yuan and the beautiful Filipino tradition of Balagtasan.PHOTO BY BENEDICT ABAYGAR, JR.