To celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, Corinne Picut, Corporate Account Manager of AEMovers in Hong Kong took part in the dragon boat race on Jun-16-2010 and her team again won the championship of the lady's boat races in Sai Kung for the second year.

Various organization, both European and Chinese (such as the police, firemen, army, embassies, bars, restaurants, clubs, Boy Scouts, welfare groups and even the local journalists' union) enter teams. Elimination heats are held and the final championship race is run by the three fastest boats. For the past 21/2 millennia it has been exclusively a man's sport, but in 1971 Hong Kong's first women's team entered these races and now ladies team are quite common. About a week after the local races, special International Dragon Boat Races are held in which teams from many parts of Asia come to Hong Kong for the boat race.

Each race site is crowded with people who watch from the shore and from the decks of every conceivable type of boat. The course itself is usually surrounded by hundreds of junks of all sizes, each one covered with bunting indicating team affiliations. Pleasure boats, warships, police launches and ferries are also gathered nearby.

Duanwu Festival, also known as Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional and statutory holiday associated with Chinese and other East Asian and Southeast Asian societies as well. The focus of the celebrations includes eating the rice dumpling, drinking realgar wine and racing dragon boats.

The best-known traditional story holds that the festival commemorates the death of poet Qu Yuan (340 BCE – 278 BCE) of the ancient state of Chu, in the Warring States Period of the Zhou Dynasty. A descendant of the Chu royal house, Qu served in high offices. However, when the king decided to ally with the increasingly powerful state of Qin, Qu was banished for opposing the alliance. Qu Yuan was accused of treason. During his exile, Qu Yuan wrote a great deal of poetry, for which he is now remembered. Twenty-eight years later, Qin conquered the capital of Chu. In despair, Qu Yuan committed suicide by drowning himself in the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.

It is said that the local people, who admired him, threw food into the river to feed the fish so that they would not eat Qu Yuan's body. The local people were also said to have paddled out on boats, either to scare the fish away or to retrieve his body. This is said to be the origin of dragon boat racing.