What is the goal and purpose of holding dragon boat racing?

Dragon boat rowing is the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, which is a traditional festival in China to commemorate Qu Yuan, a great poet in history. The significance of carrying forward Chinese culture, connecting ancient and modern times and rowing dragon boats lies not only in excitement, but also in remembering history and remembering ancestors' holiday activities. Carry out mass sports to enhance people's physique. Through the development of this sport, athletes will be promoted to further improve the level of dragon boat racing.

Dragon boat race is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. It can be seen that dragon boat racing is not only a kind of sports and entertainment, but also reflects the patriotism and collectivism in people's hearts. Dragon boat rowing is the largest mass rally in Qu Yuan's hometown and the oldest and grandest way to commemorate Qu Yuan.

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Dragon boat race, also known as dragon boat race, is a multi-person collective rowing competition, which is the main custom of the traditional Han festival Dragon Boat Festival and originated in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces.

It was originally a festival for China people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in Wuyue, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifices in the form of dragon boat races on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. After the poet Qu Yuan died on this day, it became a traditional festival custom for the Han people in China to commemorate Qu Yuan, and it was also one of the representatives of the Han dragon totem culture.

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the dragon boat race was popular in Wu Yuechu, and later it was also popular in the southern coastal areas of China. After it was spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people all over the world and formed an international competition. There are two main forms of dragon boat fishing. One is rowing a dragon boat, which is called "borrowing scenery".

Each township takes turns to hold only performance skills, not rankings. From the first day of May to the twentieth day of May, there is a "Dragon Boat Show" almost every day. Another form is the dragon boat, which wins the bid in the competition, also called "bidding". Dragon Boat not only inherits the traditional culture of China, but also contains the spirit and concept of unity, hard work and enterprising. At present, there are two views on the origin of dragon boat race: Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Wu and Yuanling in northwest Hunan.