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What are the traditional cultural activities

Traditional Chinese cultural activities are:

1,Dragon boat racing

Dragon boat racing is the Dragon Boat Festival customs, but also the Han Chinese in the Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most important folk activities, in the south of China prevails in the north of the city near the river and lake there are dragon boat racing customs, and most of them are paddling the dry dragon boat dance dragon boat form.

About the origin of dragon boat racing, there are a variety of sayings, there are sacrifices to Cao E, sacrifices to Qu Yuan, sacrifices to the god of the water or the dragon god and other ritual activities, its origin can be traced back to the end of primitive society. Dragon boat racing has been introduced to neighboring countries such as Japan, Vietnam and the United Kingdom. It is an official competition event of the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, and has been included in the national intangible cultural heritage list.

2,Dragon Dance Performance:?

The Dragon Dance, commonly known as playing with dragon lanterns, is one of the traditional folk cultural activities of the Han nationality originating in China. People pray for the blessing of the dragon with the dragon dance on happy days, in order to pray for favorable weather conditions and good harvests. The main prop of the Dragon Dance is the "dragon". Dragons made of grass, bamboo, cloth, etc., the number of sections of the dragon to the singular for good luck, most often see nine sections of the dragon, eleven sections of the dragon, thirteen sections of the dragon, more up to twenty-nine sections.

3, lion dance:

Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Every festival or gathering celebration, the folk are lion dance to cheer, lion dance has the north and south, the south to Guangdong's lion dance performance is the most famous. The lions are made of colored cloth. Each lion is performed by two people, one at the head and one at the tail. Under the music of gongs and drums, the performers dress up as lions and make various lion movements. During the performance, the lion dancers have to perform various moves to show the southern school of martial arts, which is very rich in masculinity.