Intangible cultural heritage skills related to dragon boat

Dragon boat making skill is an intangible cultural heritage skill related to dragon boat.

Dragon boat making skill is an ancient traditional handicraft skill. Tang Zhong Town, Dongguan City, Guangdong Province has always been the hometown of dragon boat manufacturing, with a history of 1000 years. Tang Zhong Town is a typical water town, located in the water network zone of the tributary of Dongjiang River, with a wide range of rivers and waters. Now it is the only town in Dongguan and its surrounding cities and counties with a dragon boat workshop.

Nave's works are mainly about the dragon with the dragon head held high. This type of dragon boat is slender and looks like a willow leaf. It is 28.5 meters long and has 28 rows of seats and 56 rowers. Its structure is divided into faucet, dragon tail, keel and dragon intestine. On June 7th, 2008, the dragon boat making skill was approved by the State Council to be included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

Development course of dragon boat making skills

China is the hometown of dragons and also the hometown of dragon boats. Dragon boat races have a history of thousands of years. Dragon boat is the embodiment of dragon and the carrier of dragon boat race. The production of dragon boat is not only related to the competition, but also related to the inheritance of history and the development of traditional culture.

Dongguan is a typical water town, which has been the main ethnic intersection area in Guangdong since the Ming Dynasty with a long history. Tang Zhong Town was awarded "China Dragon Boat Town" by China Dragon Boat Association. Dragon boat races are becoming more and more popular among local people, and the demand for dragon boats is growing. With the improvement of dragon boat production technology, the dragon boat race has been carried forward and passed down.

From beam wood to dragon boat, it still needs to go through dozens of processes, like hundreds of years ago, requiring six workers to work at the same time, which takes 20 days, nailing 100 kilograms of nails, consuming 6 cubic meters of wood, hand-grinding, smoothing and splicing countless times before it becomes a dragon shape. This traditional folk method of rowing dragon boats by hand has continued to this day.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Boat Making Skills