Dragon boat model simple production method

The simple way to make a dragon boat model is as follows:

1, prepare the necessary materials and tools: cardboard cardboard, small boxes, white paper and old magazines, glue, pens.

2, with a pencil on white paper to draw the shape of the dragon head, and then use watercolor pencils to color it.

3, cut out the drawn white paper of the dragon head with another piece of paper folded together, and then glue it on both sides of a rectangular box respectively.

4, and then use scissors to cut cardboard four small trapezoid, respectively, according to equal parts stuck in the middle of the boat, you can also stick a little glue and so on to strengthen it.

5, take the old green impurities with scissors before the shape of the dragon's tail, it will paste it in the stern, a simple dragon boat is done.

Origin of the Dragon Boat

According to historians and folklorists, the Dragon Boat Festival originally originated in the Jiangzhe region of Wuyue tribes of the totem sacrifice [2]. In order to seek the blessing of the dragon, the ancestors would hold a grand dragon totem festival on the day of the Dragon Boat Festival every year, and at the same time, they would also paddle canoes engraved with the shape of a dragon in the sound of gongs and drums to race across the water.

The prehistoric culture of Hemudu and Tianluoshan sites proved that as early as 5,000 to 7,000 years ago, there were canoes and wooden paddles. And the dragon boat initially original form is a single wooden boat carved with a dragon on the canoe, and later developed into a dragon boat made of wooden boards.

In the ancient canonical records about the origin of the dragon boat, the earliest appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In fact, the Wu-Yue area in the south of China was not developed until the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival was initially popular only among the Wu-Yue ethnic group in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and then the Wu-Yue culture gradually exchanged and fused with the culture of the Central Plains, and the custom spread to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the northern regions.

The Dragon Boat Festival was first organized by the ancient Yue people as a kind of ritual activity for the Dragon Ancestor. The early source of the Dragon Boat Festival was the worship of the dragon totem, which mainly originated from the beliefs of the primitive tribes. Therefore, the primitive ancestors in the Dragon Boat Festival, to row a dragon boat to honor the gods and self-entertainment, dancing dragon lantern worship and self-pleasure. Therefore, the Dragon Boat Festival is also known as "Dragon Day" in ancient times. Dragon Boat Festival iconic food custom is to eat zongzi, zongzi is the main raw material is rice and bamboo leaves, bamboo shells, wild rice leaves, rice and bamboo main production areas in the southern region.