A description of dragon boat culture in Hengtan in 200-300 words. To be rich in local color.

Dragon boat is the Xingtan water town "dragon culture" an important component of the department, it is mainly expressed in the form of dragon boat races and colorful dragons racing, in the Qing Dynasty during the Jiaqing period, Shunde dragon boat activities are very prosperous.

Hangtan Town will be the eighth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar every year as a water township festival, in this day Shunde each Fang village of the masses will put their own dragon boat dress up out of the beauty contest or race, water township festival dragon boat activities for the local customs. In order to make the water township "dragon culture" to carry forward, Xingtan Township villages every year after the Dragon Boat Festival will be carried out after the Dragon Boat Race activities of varying scale.

Dragon boats include straw boats, dragon boats two kinds of straw boats for three people sitting in the mud boat, while the dragon boat is initially known as the agricultural boat, for farmers to go out to cultivate farming, after the development of the race for special purposes. The length of the dragon boat in 12.5 meters to 12.8 meters between the hull width of 55 centimeters, the weight of 50 to 55 kilograms between the general can sit 5 people.