How to pinch a dragon boat

How to pinch the dragon boat is introduced as follows:

Press out the base with white mud first.

Then put an orange bottom around the boat.

Continue to add a U-shaped boat edge on both sides, press marks on the bottom of the boat, and then press the bow and stern together.

Then press a circle with wire to make a dragon forest on the ship's side, and pay attention to the staggered scales.

Then rub an oval ball with red clay, cut the mouth with scissors, make teeth with white clay, make tongue with red clay, and make eyes with white and brown clay.

Then use orange mud to make a dragon beard, green mud to make a nose, orange mud to make eyebrows, and then add green mud to rub out the ball for decoration.

Then rub the dark green and light blue-green clay into water drops to make its mane, first stick seven dark green and then six light green.

Here, continue to cut off the excess part of the hull neck and install the faucet.

Finally, make a tail with three deep and three shallow green mud strips and stick it on the stern, and then draw the edge of Longlin with yellow propylene pigment. After drying, the dragon boat can be put into use.

Dragon boat is an important part of traditional culture in China, and it is also a water sport that has been passed down to this day. Besides hand-made dragon boats, there are also special dragon boat races, which are held all over the country every year.

At the same time, there are many types and folding methods of dragon boats, such as four-character dragon boats, triangle dragon boats and eight-character dragon boats. For those who like to make and collect handicrafts by hand, knowing these dragon boat making skills and knowledge points can better experience and feel the profoundness of China traditional culture.

Dragon boat is a dragon boat used in the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boat race is the main custom of the traditional Han festival Dragon Boat Festival. Originally, it was a festival for China people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a custom of holding dragon totem sacrifice in the form of dragon boat race on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. After the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became a traditional festival custom for the Han people in China to commemorate Qu Yuan, and it was also one of the representatives of the Han dragon totem culture.