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Continued from above) Dragon Boat Racing Forms

Dragon boat racing is a large-scale folk activities and folk sports and athletic activities, the participants are many, the audience is also many, often the drums in the river like thunder, roar shocked the sky, the two sides of the sea of people. In the old days, there was a ballad "Rongcheng South Gate Dragon Boat Race, attracting half of the county". In the old days, there was a "dragon boat gongs and drums play" proverb, meaning that the dragon boat race, camp (tour) gongs and drums, do the opera, are the folk grand folk cultural activities, three kinds of, the dragon boat race in the forefront, that is, the dragon boat race is the most shocking. In the old days, the dragon boat race with the village race, there is a village around and around the race, there is even a surname in the village in the order of generation race. Everyone has a competitive spirit, everyone wants to win. Often lose to find a reason to make trouble things happen, triggered by the village and village disputes, around and around the dispute, the father and son of the grandson dispute, and even developed into a criminal case. Therefore, in the old days, people called the dragon boat race is "playing water ring", and there is "dragon boat rowing on the official hall" of the helpless proverb. After the liberation, all over the way to change this bad custom. 1957 Dragon Boat Festival, Lin Pan District government organization of the district belongs to more than ten dragon boat, in the triangle ferry river section for the race, each dragon boat assigned a cadre "leaning against the dragon rules" command supervisory line to maintain order, the scale of the dragon boat race into a full embodiment of the establishment of the new China to move the people to be the master of the house and live in harmony. After the establishment of new China, the dragon boat race was organized as a grand event that fully reflected the harmony between the people who were the masters of their own house. Since then, the dragon race for gold activities to promote unity and cooperation, struggle upward, good family and good-neighborly good customs event.

Traditional folk customs, men can only participate in the dragon boat race, women can not. Because the boat made into a dragon shape, is the dragon master, women sitting on the dragon master, is blasphemy staining the gods. Thus, the dragon boat race is a man's patent. Therefore, the folk have "May small (insanity) Wo Po, August small Zi Niang" proverb.

Rong River, Lianjiang River, Longjiang River and other rivers are ideal places for dragon boat racing. Before the liberation of the dragon boat race, in addition to arranging the dragon boat race track and the starting point, the rest of the water there are a lot of boats to watch the dragon boat race; there are hired by the various strings between the music hall, dressed up in colorful and play music inside the boat, called the "Ten Sound Boat"; there are also small boats in the race area of the waters cruising, cheering, or improvisation of the race, people called the "headless mortar". "headless mortar". Today, for safety reasons, those old ornamental boats, ten sound boat and headless mortar, etc., are not allowed to exist in the race waters. Held a larger dragon boat race activities, if necessary, but also closed and in the two sides of the ornamental area prohibited vehicle traffic.

Hundreds of years of dragon boat racing activities, how to race the interesting and successful, by constantly creating, along with the custom of the following five forms of competition:

Performance: 2 or more dragon boats, to slow or medium speed to keep driving side by side, back and forth shuttle. This kind of performance race, folk called "and dragon".

Friendship race: there are start and finish mark, more than 2 dragon boat race, before and after the distance between fast and slow longer, by the front of the dragon boat's head radius or head to the three radius to stop paddling lifting the radius, said "Pengi radius", such as the back of the dragon boat to catch up, and only then continue to radius paddling. In this way, see who "enterprise radius" more, more means victory. But in the end, there is no victory or defeat, only a hint of the strength of each other.

Capture the standard race: refers to the village small race, more than two dragon boats at the same time start rowing, until grab the flag to capture the standard to determine the winner.

Championship: a larger race. This kind of competition is generally led, organized, unified regulations and uniform arrangements for the competition. The competition process has elimination rounds, and finally decided the top few and the champion, runner-up, third place and other rankings. This kind of competition is generally combined with some kind of celebration or economic and trade activities held to enhance the content and meaning of the activities.

Timed Race: Each dragon boat starts at the same time and reaches the finish line to determine the winner.

The course of the dragon boat race is usually decided by drawing lots. Because of the river has "flow ditch", so in the river race, generally should be back and forth to be fair and reasonable. If a ride to decide the winner, it is the same as the draw to decide the winner, there is no significance of the game. This is the folk traditionally Dragon Boat race hosts understand and attach importance to, so as to achieve fairness, justice, openness, winners and losers reasonable, everyone is satisfied. (To be continued)