The process of the Dragon Boat Festival

(Reprint) the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the "Dragon Boat Festival", the end is the "beginning", "the beginning of the" meaning. The first five days can be called the end of the five. Lunar calendar to the Earth's branches of the month, the first month of building c, February for the d, in turn to May for the noon, so May for the month of noon, "five" and "noon" through, "five" and for the number of Yang, so the Dragon Boat Festival also known as Duanwu is also known as the five, heavy five, Duanyang, in the sky, heavy afternoon, noon, in addition to some places will be called the Dragon Boat Festival May Festival, Ai Festival, Summer Festival. From the historical point of view, "Dragon Boat Festival" two words were first seen in the Jin Zhou Zhi "land and customs": "mid-summer Dragon Boat Festival, cooking rasping corn". Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Han Chinese people in China. The essential activities of this day gradually evolved into: eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus, moxa, fumigation Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, drink xionghuang wine. It is said that eating rice dumplings and dragon boat racing, is to commemorate the Qu Yuan, so after the liberation of the Dragon Boat Festival was named "Poet's Day" to commemorate the Qu Yuan. As for hanging calamus, mugwort leaves, fumigate Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica, drink Xionghuang wine, it is said to be in order to suppress the evil spirits.

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On the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, summarized, there are roughly the following said: to commemorate the Qu Yuan, the earliest from the Southern Liang Dynasty Wu Jun "Qi Harmonious Records" and the Northern Zhou Zong hours of service, "Jing Chu chronicles" records. It is said that Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River on the fifth day of the fifth month, and after his death, he was trapped by a dragon, and the world mourned him and threw five-colored silk dumplings into the water every day to drive away the dragon. Another rumor, Qu Yuan cast Miluo River, the local people heard immediately rowing boats to rescue, a thousand straight line to the Dongting Lake, the end of Qu Yuan's body. At that time, coinciding with the rainy day, the boats on the lake together gathered at the shore by the pavilion. When people learned that is to salvage the wise minister Qu Daifu, once again braved the rain, scrambling to paddle into the vast Dongting Lake. In order to send their condolences, people swung their boats on top of the river, and only thereafter gradually developed into dragon boat races. 'It seems that the Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, dragon boat races and commemorate Qu Yuan related to the Tang Dynasty Wenxiu 'Dragon Boat Festival' poem as evidence: "Festival points Dragon Boat Festival since who said, the rumors of the ages for Qu Yuan. I can laugh at the empty Chu River, can not be washed straight minister injustice."

Welcoming Tao God, this is from the Eastern Han Dynasty "Cao E Stele". Cao E is the Eastern Han Dynasty Shangyu people, his father drowned in the river, a few days to see the body, when the filial daughter Cao E was only 14 years old, day and night along the river crying. After seventeen days, she threw herself into the river on May 5, and carried her father's body out five days later. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Zixu, a loyal minister of Wu, died of injustice, turned into a Tao God, the world mourned and sacrificed, so there is the Dragon Boat Festival.

Dragon festival, this argument comes from Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival Examination", and "Dragon Boat Festival's historical education". He believes that the fifth day of the fifth month of May is the ancient Wuyue region "dragon" tribes held totem sacrifices. The main reasons are; (a) the two most important activities of the Dragon Boat Festival eat zongzi and race, are related to the dragon. Zongzi into the water is often stolen by the mosquito dragon, while the race is used in the dragon boat. (B) the race and the ancient wu yue local relationship is particularly deep, and wu yue people also have broken hair tattoo "to like the dragon" custom. (C) in ancient times on the fifth day of May, there are "colorful silk arm" folk custom, which should be "like the Dragon" tattoo custom remains.

Evil day, in the pre-Qin era, it is generally believed that May is a poisonous month, the fifth is evil. According to the Book of Rites, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the Zhou Dynasty with the storage of orchids for bathing. Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" in the "midsummer record" chapter provides that people in May to abstain from sex, fasting. In the Xia Xiaozheng, it is written, "This day is for storing medicines in order to remove poisonous qi." Dadailei" in the record, "the fifth day of the fifth month of the animal orchids for the bath" to bathe to drive away evil spirits that the fifth day of the death of the legend is also a lot of. The Historical Records of the Grand Historian (史记-孟尝君列传) recorded that the famous Grand Historian Meng Chang Jun (孟尝君) was born on the 5th day of the 5th lunar month. His father asked his mother not to give birth to him, believing that "the son of the month of May, longer than the household Qi, will be unfavorable to his parents." According to an anonymous article in the book "Customs", "It is said that if a child is born on the fifth day of the fifth month, the male will harm his father and the female will harm her mother. Wang Chong, author of "Lun Heng", also recorded: "taboo to lift the first month, May son; to the first month, May son to kill the father and mother, shall not be lifted also." In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the great general Wang Zhenxiao was born on the fifth day of the fifth month, so his grandfather named him "Zhenxiao". Song Huizong Zhao Ji was born on the fifth day of the fifth month, from childhood foster outside the palace. It can be seen that the ancient May 5 as a bad day, is a common phenomenon. Can be seen from the pre-Qin later, this day are unlucky day. In this way, in this day plug calamus, moxa to drive away ghosts, lavender, dahurica and drink andrographis to avoid the epidemic, is a logical thing.

Summer solstice, this view of Liu Deqian in the "" Dragon Boat Festival " and "" Chinese traditional festivals ", put forward three main reasons: (a) the authoritative work of years and times " Jing Chu years and times " did not mention the May 5 to eat dumplings of the festival custom, but to eat dumplings written in the summer solstice. As for Jingdu, sui dynasty du taiqing made the "jade candle treasure canon" it is classified as the summer solstice recreational activities, visible is not necessarily to salvage the great poet qu yuan cast into the river. (b) Some elements of the Dragon Boat Festival customs, such as "treading on a hundred grasses", "fighting with a hundred grasses", and "picking miscellaneous medicines", actually have nothing to do with Qu Yuan. (C) The first explanation of the Dragon Boat Festival in the Times and Fashions of Huajili is: "The sun is shining, and the Dragon Boat Festival is in the middle of summer, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Festival of the Day. The earliest origin of the Dragon Boat Festival is the summer solstice. Tui Dang out, and to commemorate the Qu Yuan said the most extensive impact. As a result of Qu Yuan's personality and artistic excellence, people are also willing to attribute this anniversary to him.

Memorial female poet Qiu Jin, Qiu Jin word Ruiqing Jingxiong, No. Jianhu female warrior, the small word Yugu, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, good at poetry, lyrics, songs, fugue, and like to ride a horse, fencing, there are flowers, Mulan, Qin Liangyu in the world of the name. 28 years old to participate in the revolution, the influence of a great, in the premeditated revolt for the Qing soldiers arrested, to the end of the day, in the thirty-third year of the Guangxu Jun 5, in the Shaoxing Xuan Hengkou valiantly. Posterity to venerate her poetry, mourning her loyalty and courageous deeds, so, with the Poet's Day to commemorate her, and the Poet's Day is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan and designated as the Dragon Boat Festival.

Duanwu alias

According to statistics, the name of the Dragon Boat Festival in all of China's traditional festivals in the name of the most, up to more than 20, called the festival alias of the most. If there is the Dragon Boat Festival, Duanwu Festival, Duanyang Festival, heavy five festival, heavy Wu Festival, Tianzhong Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Calamus Festival, Pu Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bath Orchid Festival, Zongzi Festival, Wuzhi Festival, Daughter's Festival, Dilah Festival, Poet's Festival, Dragon Festival, Wuzhi, Tianzhong Festival, May Festival and so on.

Duanyang Festival, according to the "Jing Chu chronicle", because of the mid-summer, Shunyang on the May is the mid-summer, it is the first day of the first day of the afternoon is the day to ascend to the Shunyang weather is good, it is known as the first five days of May for the "Duanyang Festival".

The Dragon Boat Festival, Wu, belonging to the twelve branches of the lunar calendar in May for the month of Wu, Wu, Wu homophonic, five, five heavy, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "Festival of the Dragon Boat Festival" or "heavy five festival", some places are also known as the "May Festival! The first is the "Duanwu Festival", which is also known as the "May Festival" in some places.

Tianzhong Festival, the ancients believed that the fifth day of May, Yang heavy people in the sky, so this day is called "Tianzhong Festival".

Bath Orchid Festival, Dragon Boat Festival in mid-summer, is the season of skin diseases, the ancients to orchid soup bathing to remove dirt as customary. In the Han Dynasty, the "Dai Dai Li" cloud: "noon to orchid soup bath".

The Festival, the ancients ate brown Dragon Boat Festival, there are comparisons between the length of the dumplings under the length of the leaves, the long for the winning game, so there is also a "dumplings Festival," the name.

Daughter's Day, Ming Shen Bang "Wan Department of Miscellany": "May Daughter's Day, the Department of the Dragon Boat Festival, wear Ai leaves, five poison talisman. Wan custom from the first to the fifth day of May, decorated with small girls, all state extremely research. Married women also return to Ning. Called for the Daughter Festival." Shen Bangwan "Miscellany" contains: "Yanjing from May 1 to the fifth, every family decorated with a small girl, as much as possible, extremely beautiful. Has been married to the daughter, also home hairpin to pomegranate, said the daughter of the Festival.

Calamus Festival, the ancients believed that "heavy noon" is a taboo day, when the five poisons out, so the Dragon Boat Festival customs to drive away Xing avoid poison, such as hanging calamus on the door, Ai Ye, so the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the "calamus festival".

Duanwu Festival customs

Duanwu Festival jewelry

Jianren, in the old days, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other areas of the end of the five women a kind of jewelry. Generally made of gold and silver wire or copper wire gold foil, in the shape of a small man riding a tiger, there are also added bells, bells, tassels and garlic, dumplings and so on. Inserted in the women's hair buns, also used for gifts. Qingjiazhu" cloud: "(May 5) city people made of gold and silver wire for the complex tassels, bells, bells and so on, riding on a tiger, very fine, decorated with a small hairpin, through the string, or copper wire and gold foil, for women to insert the sideburns. And they offer each other gifts, and their name is Jianren." Jianren a said and Ai people agree, just to silk easy to Ai, Wu Man Yun "Jiangxiang festival word - a small preface" cloud: "Hangzhou custom, Jianren that Ai people, and easy to silk, for the camel tiger, women are wearing," like this when the role of driving away evil spirits and epidemics; that is, the ancient time of the rock, purely for women's decorations (Cai Yun, "Wu Dedication" note).

Dou Niang, the old days of the Dragon Boat Festival women's headdress. Mostly found in Jiangnan. Some regions are also called Jianren. This object is said to have originated from the ancient step rocker, said that the other is a different form of Airen. Qingjiazhu" cited "Tang and Song dynasty records" cloud: "Jiang who north and south, five hairpin color wins the system, ready to very clever. Where the fabric pin Jian system Ai leaves, or save embroidery Xian, Buddha, Hop, Wu, insects, fish, the shape of the beasts, eight treasures such as flowers. Crepe spiders, Cherry Fenglin, cocoon tiger fluffy dor, rows of grass lizards, and praying mantis spider cicada scorpion, and gourd fruits and gourds, color and realism. To add streamers, embroidered balls and tassels, bells and bells, or string, the name is Dou Niang, can not be described."

Ai Hu, the old Dragon Boat Festival to drive away evil spirits, but also for decorations. China's ancient view of the tiger as a sacred animal, commonly thought to be able to suppress the evil spirits, blessing peace. "Customs" cloud: "Tiger Yang thing, the longest of the beasts. Can devour food ghosts, ...... also open up the evil. Therefore, more folk take tiger for the use of evil, especially the Dragon Boat Festival for the most characteristic of Ai Hu. Ai tiger or to Ai braided and cut, or cut color for the tiger, stick to Ai leaves, worn in the hair body. The Dragon Boat Festival custom of wearing Ai Hu has a history of more than a thousand years. Song Chen Yuan-gui, "the time of the year wide record" cited "the time of the year miscellany": "the Dragon Boat Festival in the shape of a tiger, up to as big as a black bean, or cut color as a small tiger, sticky mugwort leaves to wear. Wang Yigong 'Dragon Boat Festival Post' poem: 'Hairpin Ai tiger to ward off the evils, dawn driving auspicious clouds seven treasures car'." And Qing Fu-cha Dun Chong, "Yanjing times": "Every Duanyang, the boudoir of the clever, made of damask tiger and dumplings ...... to colorful thread, hanging in the head of the hairpin, or tied to the back of the children, the old poem: 'Jade Swallow hairpin Ai tiger light! ', that is, this meaning." In addition to the adornment of Ai Hu, the Dragon Boat Festival, there are also used for the children in the forehead of the Xionghuang painting "king" of the custom, the intention also lies in the use of the tiger to ward off evil spirits.

Painting the forehead, the Dragon Boat Festival to smear the forehead of the children's custom, the cloud can drive away poisonous insects. Typical method is to use the male yellow wine in the children's forehead painting "king" word, a borrowing of the male yellow to drive away poison, the second borrowing tiger ("king" like the tiger's forehead, and tiger for the king of the beasts, because of the substitution of the tiger) in order to town evil. Qing Fuzha Duncan "Yanjing times and years": "Each to the Danyang, since the first day of the day, take the andrographis sprinkled with wine, coated with children's collars and between the nose and ears, in order to avoid poisons." In addition to the forehead, nose and ears coated, can also be coated elsewhere, with the same intention. Shanxi "Hequ County Zhi" cloud: "Dragon Boat Festival, drink xionghuang wine, coated with children forehead and two hands, feet heart, ...... said can be but sick to prolong life."

Long life wisp, when the Dragon Boat Festival aversion to wear jewelry. Also known as the renewal of life strand, renewal of life silk, prolonged life strand, longevity line, also known as 'Baisuo,' Pai Bing Shao, colorful strands, etc., name varies, shape, function is generally the same. The custom in the Dragon Boat Festival to five-color silk knot and into the rope, or hanging in the door, or wear a child's neck, or tie the arm of a child, or hanging in the bed net, cradle, etc., it is said that can be avoided in addition to the disease, blessing of well-being, longevity. The shape of such festivals are generally five: a simple five-color silk thread into a rope, tied to the arm; in the colorful rope decorated with gold and tin ornaments, hanging on the neck; colorful rope folded into a square win, decorated in front of the chest; colorful rope knots for the portrait of the wearer; colorful silk embroidered and painted the sun, moon, stars, beasts and other things, to honor the elders. This custom began in the Han Dynasty. East Han Ying Shao "customs - anonymous text": "noon, to colorful silk tie arm, to avoid ghosts and soldiers, people do not disease plague, a long life wisp, a Pai Bing Shao". Afterwards, it has become a custom until recent and modern times. Qing Fuzha Dunsun "Yanjing times" record of the custom: "Every year to the Danyang, the Cabinet of the clever, with the continued Luo made of small tiger and dumplings, pots and pans, cherries, mulberries, and so on, to color threads, hanging in the hairpin, or tied to the back of the child." In which the Tang and Song dynasties, there are more court to give ministers of such festivals. History of the Tang dynasty emperor xingyuan yuan year end of the festival, the court had given a hundred rope a shaft. And "Song history - rites of fifteen": "the day before, to the gold strands of longevity belt, color silk renewed life strands given to the hundred officials. Festival wear to enter."

Wearing scented bags, scented bags, also known as scented bags, scented pouches; purse, etc., there are five-color silk thread wrapped, there are rags sewn, filled with spices (made of Chinese herbs Angelica dahuricae, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Scutellaria baicalensis, Pai Cao, Nelumbinium, Gan Song, Gao Benxing), worn in front of the chest, the scent of the nose. Chen Shiliang's "Guangji of the Years and Seasons," citing the "Miscellaneous Records of the Years and Seasons," mentions a type "made on the fifth day of the fifth month in red and white colors like a capsule, threaded with colored threads, and made to resemble a flower in a convulsive manner." As well as another "clam powder bell": "the fifth day of the end of the clam powder in the silk, decorated with sheep, as a number of beads. So that children with to absorb sweat also". These carry bags, the contents of several changes, from the sweat of the clam powder, to drive away evil spirits, copper, andrographis powder, the development of the spice-filled scented pouches, the production is becoming more and more sophisticated, become the Dragon Boat Festival unique folk art.

Wearing a scented bag is quite delicate. The elderly in order to prevent disease and fitness, generally like to wear plum blossoms, chrysanthemums, peaches, apples, lotus, dolls riding a fish, dolls holding a rooster, double lotus and other shapes, symbolizing the birds and flowers, all the best, husband and wife love, family harmony. Children like the birds and animals, such as tigers, leopards; monkeys on the yu, cockfighting to catch free and so on. Young people to wear the most elaborate incense packet, if it is a lover in love, that sentimental girl early to elaborate one or two chic incense packet, rushed to have a festival before the gift to their lover. The young man wearing a sweetheart to give the bag of incense, naturally, to cause the surrounding men and women's comments, straight to the object of the young man to praise the handiwork.

Duanwu superstitions, get rid of and avoid the five poisons

As mentioned above, the Dragon Boat Festival was a poisonous day in the minds of the ancients, and this idea has been passed down in folk beliefs, so there are all kinds of customs to seek peace, and superstitions to avoid the calamities. In fact, this is due to the summer weather is hot, people are prone to disease, plague is also easy to epidemic; coupled with the multiplication of snakes and insects, easy to bite people, so be very careful, which is the formation of this custom. Various festive customs, such as picking herbs, sprinkling walls and doors with xionghuang wine, drinking bushels of wine, etc., may seem superstitious, but it is a hygienic activity that is beneficial to health. The Dragon Boat Festival can really be considered a traditional medicine and health festival, a festival in which the people fight against diseases and poisonous insects. Today these health practices are still should be developed, and should be carried forward.

A variety of rituals, commemorative ceremonies, is nothing more than pointing incense and candles, burning paper money, chicken, rice, meat, fruit, dumplings and so on. Today, these superstitious colors contained in the ceremony has been rare, but in the past, people worship Dragon God Temple atmosphere is very serious, and more than praying for a good harvest, wind and rain, to evil spirits, busting disaster, everything is as it should be, but also to bless the boating safety. In the words of the people, "to have a good luck", to express the good wishes of people's hearts.

At the beginning of the official race, the atmosphere is very warm. Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Jianfeng "ferry race song": "...... two sides of the Luo Yi pungent fragrance, silver hairpin shining sun such as frost blade. The drums beat three times and the red flag opened; two dragons jumped out of the floating water. The two dragons jumped out of the floating water. Anchorage shadows of the waves flew ten thousand swords, and the drums split the waves and sounded a thousand thunderbolts. The sound of drums is getting faster and faster, and the two dragons are looking at the mark as if they were in a flash. People on the slope called out thunderbolt and thunder, while the pole head hung with colorful rainbow and neon halo. The front boat has already obtained the mark, the back boat loses its momentum and swings in the air. ......" These verses have written a magnificent scene of dragon boat racing. Women usually do not go out, now also scramble to see the dragon boat, silver hairpin shining sun; drums, red flag under the command of the dragon boat sped, fell like flying swords, drums like thunder; the end of the inserted brocade color pole, as a sign. Dragon boat to the standard speeding close to ...... modern dragon boat race is largely the same, but the regulations are slightly stricter. In recent years, international dragon boat races have emerged at home and abroad, attracting athletes from all countries.

There are a number of other activities involved in dragon boat racing. For example, the dragon boat tour, is paddling the dragon boat in the dragon boat race to the nearby familiar villages to play, gatherings. Sometimes the dragon boat also has various patterns of paddling, with the meaning of performance. For example, the dragon boat in Guangzhou, the hand with the paddle blade into the water, and then up to pick, so that the splash; the bow and stern of the people are rhythmically foot pressure boat, so that the dragon boat undulation such as swimming dragons playing in the water in general. Yuhang County, Zhejiang Province, dragon boat, there are people to step on the dragon's tail low, so that the dragon's head is high, the bow of the rapid waves from the dragon's mouth spit out, such as the dragon swallowed clouds and spit out rain in general.

Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing emperors, there are near the water's edge to watch the dragon boat entertainment, also belongs to the game and so on. The old book of the Tang Dynasty, Mu Zong, Jing Zong, all have "watch the race" thing. Tokyo dream record" volume 7, recorded in the northern song dynasty emperor in the water temple to see jinming pond dragon boat racing custom. One of the colorful boat, music boat, small boat, painting cabin, small dragon boat, tiger boat for viewing, music, there is a long forty feet of the big dragon boat. In addition to the big dragon boat, other boats in formation, competing bidding, as entertainment. Song Zhang Zeduan "Jinming Pond to capture the map" that depicts this scene. And the Ming Dynasty Emperor, in Zhongnanhai Ziguangge to watch the dragon boat, to see the Royal Archery Supervisor warriors running horseback archery. The Qing Dynasty in the Yuanmingyuan Fuhai held a race, Qianlong, Jiaqing Emperor, etc. are to watch.

There are also night dragon boat. In Zhejiang Wujin, there used to be a night dragon boat, hanging small lights on all sides to race. Sichuan Wutongqiao from 1982 onwards, there is a night dragon boat, electric lights on the boat, with fireworks, floating river lamps, brilliant and eye-catching. A few places in zhejiang also set up on the water heaps of floating flames, let the dragon boat from the flame of colorful lights through.

There are also dry dragon boat, is on land to simulate the activities of the dragon boat race. Such as the "Nanchang Province," which reads, "May 5 for the dry dragon boat, so that a number of people under the different (y6, *** with picking up things), pass the drums, fill the overflow of the thoroughfare, the ladies Shi money to pray for blessings, competing with the firecrackers to remove the ominous." Wuyi County, Zhejiang Province, in the past, there is also a dry land to push the custom of the Dragon Boat, but also that can remove evil spirits. Another Guangdong Foshan, Dongguan, Xinyi have dry land dragon boat custom, is actually a dance, but the date is not necessarily in the Dragon Boat Festival. Foshan autumn fall color when the dry-land dragon boat is the most spectacular. Another example is the "Huizhou Prefecture" in: "May 5, welcome the god boat chasing the epidemic, the boat with bamboo for the, attack painting shape like loach, to twelve people as God, carry and swim in the city of Ogushi." Another small dry dragon boat to children as toys.

When rowing the dragon boat, and more singing to cheer the dragon song circulated. Such as zigui in hubei province rowing dragon boat, there is a complete singing, words and music according to the local folk songs and horns fusion and become, singing sound majestic and magnificent, heart-stopping, that is, "lifting the bow and the phase and the" of the legacy of the wind. Another example is the Dragon Boat Song of Nanxiong County in Guangdong Province, which is sung after the launching of the dragon boat in April until the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, with a wide range of performance contents. The dragon boat song circulating in Guilin, Lingui and other places in the north of Guangxi, in the race by the chorus of the copter, someone leading the call, the performance of the contents of the Dragon Boat, Dragon Boat Festival and related to the custom, the song is far-reaching and touching. Guangxi folk music anthology contains Lingui County (4 Dragon Boat Song) group, such as horn-like rhythm distinctive, enthusiastic, must be very moving to sing.

Additionally, something should be said about female dragon boats. In the past, many places in the dragon boat race are not allowed to women to participate, that women touch the dragon boat is very unlucky. Now all over the women's dragon boat team, the heroic and ironic women to fight for the light, competing for the first, not weaker than the men's men.

With the Spring Festival there are dancing dragons and phoenixes, the Dragon Boat Festival has dragon boats and wind boats. The source of the wind boat as mentioned above, is derived from the ancient boat, the boat. In ancient times, there was a phoenix in the court (such as "Tianfu Guangji" in the record of the Ming Dynasty court there), folk wind boat racing. The Guangdong capsule: "Dragon boat to hang the doctor, wind boat to serve the Queen of Heaven, all with five days for the victory. Gengwu summer, Panyu Shiqiao village into the gathering of ten thousand gold, the system of wind boat, ten feet long, wide zhang three, the head and tail held high, the two sides of the heavy wing for the convergence of Shu, the back of the temple, in order to serve the Queen of Heaven, traveling to the water towns." After 1964 Hong Kong again appeared in the wind boat racing. This windjammer hull is slightly shorter, can sit 16 members, decorated with wind head, wind tail, by the female members of the race. It is indeed a very good form of competition, with the meaning of dragon and phoenix presenting samples.

Some places also have dragon and phoenix boat. Shunde County Records: "the dragon and the wind of Daliang boat wonderful extremely gorgeous." But today has disappeared. Hunan Miluo County dragon boat, front mounted dragon head, rear wind tail, phoenix tail is wrapped with red paper gabions into a fan-shaped inserted in the stern, such as the moment tail, can also be called the dragon and phoenix boat. Dragon and phoenix boat, seems to be a dragon boat and bird boat fusion left behind.