Dumping Festival & The mystery of the standing eggs

Today (8th Jun) Chi­nese is cel­e­brat­ing a very spe­cial occa­sion, it call dump­ing or Duan Wu Jie in man­darin. I have for­got­ten how the his­tory comes to dump­ing, but accord­ing to chil­dren story there was this spe­cial poet in Chi­nese his­tory that lost in the river. Wor­ry­ing for his remains eaten by sea crea­tures the vil­lages threw some sort of dumpling into the river so the sea crea­tures will not harm his remains!

What’s a story! Okay, please don’t lis­ten to me I may get the story wrong :)

But one thing for sure, after cen­tury of dump­ing foods onto the river and still the remains of this so call “spe­cial” was never to be found and that’s when we mod­ern folk decided to dump into our stom­ach instead! ROFL!

I’m sure you’ll love it!

Chinese Dumpling, Dumping Festival

Chinese Dumpling, Dumping Festival

The next most excit­ing story would be the stand­ing eggs ROFL! Have you tried it your­self? To stand an egg thus “stand­ing egg”? hot? Excited? Let watch the next video just taken this after­noon… may look intrigu­ing :)

So what do you think? I was actu­ally amazed by it. There’s in fact no secret to how you can stand an egg! On a not so spe­cial occa­sion to stand an egg needs skill and you can make it hap­pen. If you want to make it stand with­out even a trial run than you would want to does it sharp at 12noon on Dump­ing Fes­ti­val day. For some of you in other part of the world, you can try it on the very first day of spring or maybe autumn!

In the name of sci­ence, the rea­son of why an egg stand­ing is because our sur­face are point­ing directly at the sun on these day. Of cause grav­ity plays impor­tant roles in your stand­ing eggs too :)

I hope you will enjoy your next stand­ing eggs and have a good day, god bless!