Xingtan Dragon Boat Culture Description 200 -300 words. It should be full of local color.

Dragon boat is an important part of "dragon culture" in Xingtan water town. Its main manifestations are dragon boat races and colorful dragon races. During Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, dragon boat activities flourished in Shunde.

Xingtan town has designated the eighth day of the fifth lunar month as the water town festival every year. On this day, people in Shunde villages will dress up to row dragon boats, compete with the United States or compete. It is a local custom to row dragon boats in water town festivals. In order to carry forward the "dragon culture" of the water town, every village in Xingtan Town will hold dragon boat races of different scales after the Dragon Boat Festival every year.

Dragon boats include grass boats and dragon boats. The straw boat is a mud boat for three people, while the dragon boat was originally named as an agricultural boat for farmers to go out for farming and breeding, and later developed into a racing boat. The length of the dragon boat is between 12.5 m and 12.8 m, the hull is 55 cm wide and weighs 50 to 55 kg. Usually five people can sit.