Which ethnic minority's festival is dragon boat racing?

Dragon boat racing is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in China, and one of the most important festive folk activities of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is common in the southern part of China, and also in the northern part of the city near the rivers and lakes, and most of them are in the form of paddling the dry dragon boat and dancing the dragon boat.

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 water or the dragon god and other rituals, its origin can be traced back to the Warring States period. Dragon boat racing has been introduced to neighboring countries such as Japan, Vietnam and the United Kingdom, and is the official competition of the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.

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The Dai Dragon Boat Race is held in June and July of the Dai Calendar every year (about ten days after the Ching Ming Festival) on the "Water Splashing Festival", with 600 sailors, four coxswains, and four pilots in each boat. Competition, by a gong command, sailors according to the rhythm of the gong paddle forward. Women also participate in the event.

The Miao race dragon boat in May 24 to 27 each year, "Dragon Boat Festival" held to celebrate the victory of the race dragon boat rice-planting and wishing for a bumper harvest, the length of the boat is about 20 meters, 1 meter wide, by three straight and thick cedar tree dug into a groove shape, tied together and become a 38 sailors on board each boat, by an elder as the head of the drums, a child as the A child is the drummer. When the race, the sound of the cannon, the sailors that is, according to the beat of the drums and gongs paddle forward.

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