Where to paddle a dragon boat in Chengdu

Inside the river downstream of Jiouyanqiao, around the east gate of Sichuan University.

Dragon boat rowing, also known as grill dragon boat, is a multi-person collective grill paddle race, is the main custom of the traditional Han Chinese festival Dragon Boat Festival, originated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, initially, the Chinese people's festival to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics, the Wu-Yue land before the Spring and Autumn Period in the lunar calendar on the fifth day of the fifth month of May in the form of dragon boat race held in the tribal totem sacrifices custom.

Later, because the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became a traditional Chinese Han people to commemorate Qu Yuan's holiday customs, but also one of the representatives of the Han dragon totem culture.