How many people sit on a dragon boat

The number of people will vary with different sizes of boats, ranging from 30-50.

The size of the dragon boat boat varies from place to place. For example, Guangzhou Huangpu, suburbs around the dragon boat, 33 meters long, there are 100 people on the road, copter about 80 people. Nanning dragon boat more than 20 meters long, each boat about 50 or 60 people. Hunan Miluo city dragon boat, on the other hand, is 16-22 meters long, with 24-48 scratchers. Fuzhou, Fujian dragon boats are 18 meters long and have 32 scratchers. The race is within the prescribed distance, starting at the same time, and the ranking is decided by the order of arrival at the finish line. Dragon boat races in China vary slightly from one ethnic group to another.

The Han Chinese Dragon Boat Race is held on the Dragon Boat Festival every year, with a length of 20-30 meters and about 30 sailors on each boat. Miao is in May 24-27 every year, "Dragon Boat Festival" held, the length of about 20 meters, 1 meter wide, by three straight and thick fir tree dug into a groove shape, bundled into the middle of the mother ship, on both sides of the boat for the child, each boat has 38 sailors, there is an elder as the head of the drums, a man dressed as a woman's child as a drummer. When the game, the sound of the cannon, the sailors that is according to the beat of the drums and drums paddle forward.

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Since the Song Dynasty, every year, beginning on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar, to May 30, people in Dongguan rowing dragon boats, washing dragon boat water, while the dragon boat scene, eat dragon boat cake, eat dragon boat rice, singing dragon boat song, along the way, known as the month of the dragon boat. The first day of May every year, Wanjiang held a large-scale Dragon Boat Championships, known as the "Dongguan Dragon Boat First Scene", there is a poem cloud "the first day of May, the dragon carries the head, Wanjiang River race dragon boat".

"Dongguan Dragon Boat first view", after the mutual agreement, set out their own Dragon Boat view days such as the fourth of May, "Fenxi view", the tenth of May, "Xincheng view, May 14 "new village view", Wanjiang area villages held a dragon boat race, each with its own characteristics, universal participation, until the end of the month, the people of Wanjiang that is "Dongguan Dragon Boat first view" as a pride, to maintain so far, as a traditional day.

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