Is there a dragon boat race at Yongchuan Dragon Boat Festival in Chongqing?

There is a dragon boat race in Yongchuan Dragon Boat Festival in Chongqing.

Dragon boat is a dragon boat used in the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon boat race is the main custom of traditional festivals of Han nationality. Originally, it was a festival for China people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a custom of holding dragon totem sacrifice in the form of dragon boat race 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, dragon boat racing was popular in Wu Yuechu, and it was also very popular in the Northern and Southern Dynasties at the latest. After it was spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people all over the world and formed an international competition. A dragon boat is a boat painted with the shape of a dragon or a dragon. The dragon boat is divided into several stages, such as starting the dragon, Youlong, competition and dragon gathering.

Historical origin

Dragon boat rowing is the main custom of traditional festivals of Han nationality. Legend has it that it originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Because the Chu people could not bear to part with the sage Qu Yuan and died in the river, many people rowed boats to catch up and save them. They rushed to catch up with each other, but when they got to Dongting Lake, there was no trace of them. After that, on May 5th every year, people rowed dragon boats to commemorate it, and rowed dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river to prevent the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body. The habit of rowing is popular in wuyue and Chu. In fact, the "Dragon Boat Race" existed long before Qu Yuan.

Dragon is the national totem of Han nationality in Central Plains and South China. Mr. Wen Yiduo pointed out in his three works, Fu Xi Kao, Long Feng Kao and Dragon Boat Festival Kao, that after the Yellow Emperor unified the Central Plains, he combined the symbols of his tribe with those of other clans and tribes that were merged, and finally formed the image of "dragon" worshipped by the Han people, a virtual comprehensive god, and became the symbol of the Han people.