What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Qingyuan?

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also called Duanyang Festival. Folk customs include jiaozi, such as triangle alkali jiaozi, four corners long bacon jiaozi, etc. Every door is planted with calamus or Artemisia argyi. Folk saying is "exorcism". Local folk song: "If you don't plant mugwort leaves during the Dragon Boat Festival, your child won't grow up." In addition, there are customs of dragon boat racing and dragon boat washing. Dragon boat washing water is mostly washed in the river, and it is also fried with five-finger peach leaves at home.

There is a folk saying that after washing the dragon boat water, the whole family will eliminate the disaster.

The custom of dragon boat race in Qingyuan

Qingyuan, the hometown of China Dragon Boat, enjoys very popular traditional entertainment. There are roughly two kinds of dragon boats in Qingyuan: one is called dragon boat (3-person boat or 5-person boat), and the other is called "dovetail boat" or "grain boat". The average captain is 9. 1 m, 42 cm wide, 24.6 cm high and weighs about 74 kg. It is made of Chinese fir. This kind of dragon boat is light and fast. The "Swallowtail Boat" is unique to Qingyuan. The other is called Youlong, which is a very big wooden dragon boat. The bow is engraved with a faucet and 25 paddles, plus gongs and drums players and helmsman, which can seat 40 people.

Just look at the dragon card in Shantang. Shantang Town, under the jurisdiction of Qingxin County, is located on the west bank of Beijiang River, so it is named for its many mountain ponds. What are the characteristics of Shantang Dragon?

There are many events. There are 15 village (neighborhood) committees in the town, with nearly 300 dragon boats for three people; Every year, there are competitions in every village, and many villagers' groups spontaneously organize their own dragon boat races. Some village groups even hold two or three competitions a year.

The competition period is long. In May of the lunar calendar, there is a one-month dragon boat race around the Dragon Boat Festival, and dragon boat races are held almost every day. Sometimes on the same day, several villages race dragon boats, and people in Shantang who love dragon boats can enjoy it for a month.

The venue is not limited, and the participants are not limited. Rivers, fish ponds and mountain pits are all dragon boat races. Men, women and children, and outsiders in the village can sign up for the competition. The winner is king anyway.

The custom of rowing dragon boats on the west coast of Lianzhou

Dragon boat race is commonly known as dragon boat race.

There are six dragon boats on the west coast: Red Dragon, Huanglong, Meat Dragon, White Dragon, Oolong, and Flat Neck (the dragon head looks like a rice shovel head of a poisonous snake). How to identify? Watch The Legend of the Dragon Beard. The dragon boat on the west coast is very long and can be rowed by dozens of people. The size of the ship and the number of sailors are not very strict. Many hands make light work, and the ship is heavy, each with its own advantages and disadvantages.

On the morning of Mid-Autumn Festival, it is the "Youlong Boat": every village will greet the leader of the dragon boat with gods, and the elders and people in position in the village will also be invited to board the dragon boat and set off firecrackers while drifting slowly in the river accompanied by "Eight-tone Drum Music".

In the old customs, women were not allowed to board the dragon boat. Nowadays, in the "new society", young girls dare to play dragon boat.

In the afternoon, when the dragon boat race won the bid, most of the sailors were young and clever in their twenties and eighties. The game has started! The gongs and drums were loud, the dragon boat was cut, and the villagers on the shore followed the dragon boat in the village and cheered with firecrackers. Winning the championship in the competition is not about ranking, "friendship comes first, competition comes second", but "making a fuss" (West Coast language)-making a fuss.

This is a Japanese family that kills chickens and ducks in jiaozi and is proud of its many guests.

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