China's top ten hometowns of dragon boat

China's top ten hometowns of dragon boat: Miluo in Hunan, Yuanling in Hunan, Dongguan in Guangdong, Tongren in Guizhou, Xiangyang in Hubei, Fuzhou in Fujian, Xupu in Hunan, Qiantongnan in Guizhou, Hanjiang in Wuhan, and Sanzao Town in Zhuhai.

1, Miluo, Hunan - China Dragon Boat City

Miluo, Hunan is the "China Dragon Boat City", Miluo River Dragon Boat Customs is a rich, unique and mysterious Dragon Boat Customs. Customs, distributed in Miluo City, Miluo River basin in the middle and lower reaches of the area.

The Miluo River Dragon Boat Festival generally begins on the first day of the fifth lunar month and ends on the fifteenth day of the fifth lunar month, and the whole festival has a long history, a wide range of masses, rich diversity, rich culture, fervent participation and far-reaching influence.

2. Yuanling, Hunan Province - the birthplace of ancient Chinese dragon boats

Long before Qu Yuan, Yuanling had dragon boats. The Yuanling dragon boat originated in ancient times, and was worshipped by the ancestor of the five streams of various ethnic groups **** the same as the Pan gourd. He had settled in a stone cave in Yuanling's Half Creek and gave birth to six sons and six daughters, who married each other and multiplied into six ethnic groups: Miao, Yao, Dong, Tu, She and Li. After his death, the six ethnic groups invited the gods to invoke his spirit.

Because of the dense water in Yuanling, the sorcerer did not know where his soul had landed, so he had the tribes build a dragon boat and searched for him, calling out to him from stream to stream, which evolved into the later ritual of rowing a boat to invoke his soul.

3, Dongguan, Guangdong - China's longest dragon boat race

Dongguan Dragon Boat Month, Dongguan is the most influential, the largest number of participants in the traditional folk cultural activities. Dongguan people race dragon boat, not one or two days, but a month, so called dragon boat month. The main activity of the Dragon Boat Month is the Dragon Boat Race, a month-long Dragon Boat Race starting from the first day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year.

Dongguan City, Dongguan City, the water township piece and the Dongjiang River coastal areas of the towns, according to the size of the local tides, set out the village of the day of the dragon boat landscape, set up a standard called the race, that is, the competition; not set up a standard called while the scene. Now the month of dragon boat has been a major feature of Dongguan, where you feel the people of Dongguan rowing dragon boat, wash the dragon boat water, while the dragon boat view, eat dragon boat cake, eat dragon boat rice, singing dragon boat song, after all the dragon boat ferry pomp and circumstance.

4, Guizhou Tongren - China's traditional dragon boat township

Tongren, Guizhou Province, has a long history of dragon boat races, the dragon boat has become the local representative of the national cultural symbols. 2009, Tongren was awarded the "Chinese traditional dragon boat township

In 2011, Tongren was awarded the "Chinese traditional dragon boat township

Tongren is the first city in the world to have a dragon boat race. In 2009, Tongren City was awarded the "Hometown of Chinese Traditional Dragon Boat", and in 2011, Tongren Dragon Boat Racing was included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list as a traditional sports program.

5, Xiangyang, Hubei - China's long history of dragon boat races

Xiangyang since ancient times is the place where the north and south cultures meet, thousands of miles of the Han River runs through the city, and the Dragon Boat Race has a long history. According to folklore experts, Xiangyang's dragon boat races began two thousand years ago in the Western Han Dynasty, and from the Ming Dynasty to the 1950s, with developed shipping on the Han River and numerous docks on both sides of the river, the Dragon Boat Races at the Dragon Boat Festival reached their heyday.

Since 2010, Xiangyang's dragon boat races have shifted from private to government-sponsored, and every year during the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boats race across the river, with crowds of people on both sides of the river, making for an extremely spectacular scene.

6, Fuzhou, Fujian - China's night race dragon boat place

Fujian is located near the sea, the river is long, since ancient times, the custom of dragon boat racing. During the Song Dynasty, "the Min custom of racing" has been inherited in Fujian Province. Dragon boat racing is also a typical folk sports event in Fujian, Fuzhou has a long and rich dragon boat culture.

In Fuzhou, if you think that the daytime than the end of the end, it would be a big mistake, 600 years, before and after the Dragon Boat Festival in Fuzhou, three streams of the village has continued the custom of the night crossing the Dragon Boat, there is a "Dragon Boat Day since ancient times, unique three streams of the night race voyage," the statement, in the Fuzhou area is the biggest attraction of the night race Dragon Boat.

7, Hunan Xupu - China's toughest "grill dragon boat"

Since the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ma Yanping Wuling barbarians, Xupu formed the first five for the small Dragon Boat Festival, the fifteenth for the big Dragon Boat Festival custom, the dragon boat on the fifth into the water, fifteen On the shore, weekday drills, fourteen, fifteen for the race day, the whole eleven days. Every year in the second half of the fourth lunar month, Xupu people began to make preparations for the Xupu Double Dragon Boat Festival.

Xupu called rowing dragon boat for "grill dragon boat", Xupu grill dragon boat from the fifth of May has been rowing to the fifteenth of May. The most unique feature of Xupu dragon boat racing is that it still retains its toughness, exquisite, contains a deep cultural heritage.

8, Guizhou Qiandongnan - known as China's most bizarre dragon boat races

Guizhou Miao Dragon Boat Festival is China's Guizhou Qiandongnan region of the Qingshui River Shibing Taijiang Basin Miao people every year in the Dragon Boat Festival after the 25th day of the fifth lunar calendar traditional folklore activities, the local Miao will be paddling the day of the dugout dragon boat. In addition to dragon boat racing, there are other activities such as jumping on drums, singing songs and so on.

9, Wuhan Han River - China's memorial to Qu Yuan's Dragon Boat Race

Han River Dragon Boat Race is set up to memorialize Qu Yuan. Legend has it that Qu Yuan wandered along the Han River on his way to exile, so the Han River area has long had the folklore of "Dragon Boat Race in the afternoon, Chu customary hanging Qu Yuan Zi". Its brilliant and cheerful scene is the Dragon Boat Race at Dragon Boat Festival a visual feast, the sound of shouting, piece of colorful flags out of the waves, dongdong day drums trailing the wind, see to win the Championships strong.

10, Zhuhai Sanzao town - China's sea dragon boat race place

Zhuhai Sanzao sea dragon boat race has a hundred years of history, has now become a municipal intangible cultural heritage representative list, and we all know that the dragon boat race is different, Sanzao Dragon Boat Race is not held in the smooth river, lake

Sanzao Dragon Boat Race is not held in smooth rivers and lakes, but in the rough sea.

The sea dragon boat race covers a total of 12 kilometers, including a 1-kilometer-long track, and the dragon boats need to go back and forth six times. Unlike ordinary dragon boats, the coxswain of a dragon boat leads the whole team by striking a gong instead of a drum.

The traditional Sanzao Sea Dragon Boat Race is characterized by sea rituals, gongs and a round-robin race, in which villagers paddle their dragon boats from their villages several times before the race and then go back to their villages to pick a seedling from the paddy field and put it on the dragon boat to pray for good luck.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Boat