Dragon Boat Activities in Wenzhou

On the Dragon Boat Festival, dragon boat races are held all over Wenzhou, and prizes are offered to win prizes, commonly known as "dragon boat rowing" or "dragon rowing". Generally, the time starts before May 1 day and ends around May 1 day, sometimes half a month, and it is April1day in the south of Pingyang.

There are dragon boats in every township in Wenzhou, and there are incense officials and gods in every temple, which specialize in rowing dragon boats. During the Duanyang Festival, new dragon boats will be built in some places. On the first day of April, drums will be played to open the doors of temples, offering sacrifices to officials and gods, and shipbuilding will begin. Generally, the doors are not opened until the first day of May, and the boat is rowed immediately after offering sacrifices to the gods, commonly known as "going to the water". When the dragon boat returns, it is called "receiving incense", and when it ends, it is called "dispersing the river" or "washing the lane". The dragon boat is turned over and carried to the temple for preservation the next day. It is also a sacrifice to the official god. According to legend, Guan Xiang is a child god who likes to play with people, so young people are said. In the dragon boat race area, people who row dragon boats have to pay dragon boat fees, treat people to wine, set off firecrackers and offer sacrifices to welcome them, which is called "putting incense cases". Dragon bows are almost everywhere. Some painted dragon forest on the hull, and the movable dragon tail was placed at the head and tail, which was small in shape. Some drew several dragon forests on the hull, and they were headless and tailless, but they were large in shape. Dragon boats in every township have their own flags with fixed colors. If there are several dragon boats in a township, flags should also be used to distinguish the signs. Take the ancient custom of Nantang River in the southern suburbs of Wenzhou as an example. Some flags are blue, and the dragon head, tail and hull are all blue, which is called "Qinglong". According to legend, among the four directions, only the seven houses of the East Black Dragon are called dragons, so green is a positive color. This Nantang River is dominated by Shencheng, so the dragon boat in the Tang Temple in Shencheng East is particularly large, with 16 stalls and 44 people on board, named Daqing, which is regarded as the dragon mother. Other dragon boats must first appear in front of Dongtang Temple, and the temple steward will reward Ayabeni and Qing, but the dragon dare not compete with them. Other small ones are called Qinglong, and other yellow ones are called Huanglong. The flag is white, and the color of the ship is also white, commonly known as "White Dragon". If it is a red flag, the hull is also dyed red, which is called "red neon ridge" and so on. Because the southern dialect is red, it is a water dragon, and it is impatient, so it changed its name to indicate taboo. The two boats compete, the water flies with the waves, the two dragons compete for the championship, and the rivers in each township are divided into river sections and enter the dragon, which do not interfere with each other.