Dragon boat racing has a long history in China. How did it reach the world?

With the changes of the times, the dragon boat race has evolved into an international sports competition, and it has been widely spread to Japan, Malaysia and other countries. According to the participation in dragon boat races held in China and other places, West Renye Fang learned more about this theme activity.

In Britain, dragon boat racing has become a fashionable sports and cultural sport, and its development trend is getting faster and faster. According to the director of the British Dragon Boat Research Association, from San Francisco and new york to many areas around the Mississippi River, there are 400 professional dragon boat teams.

In Australia, the Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival has been the 20th. Hundreds of teams and thousands of players take part in the competition every year. This event attracts thousands of visitors from Australia and Britain every year. Many families enjoy and feel this theme activity full of the charm of China traditional culture by people of all ages, cheering for the dragon boats on the water, which move forward like arrows.

"The dragon boat has been passed down for thousands of years, not just for fitness. Its cultural heritage and spiritual essence are rich. " Hu Jianguo, the chairman of the International Dragon Boat Research Association and the current chairman of the Asian Dragon Boat Committee, believes that promoting this excellent traditional sports event of Chinese culture and marketing it to all parts of the country and around the world can promote each other by combining it with outstanding new projects in other countries.

Condensed with rich and colorful cultural heritage, all the traditional festival day theme activities of the Chinese nation are the embodiment of spiritual essence consciousness, the presentation of the core concepts of culture and art, and the presentation of life path belief. "Wanzhong Lake mourns to go to the country, and one river is a thousand years old." Dragon Boat Festival is still full of vitality after thousands of years of dreams. Its romantic poetic beauty and high masculinity have become the precious cultural heritage of the Chinese nation, and its love complex for the motherland and people has become noble encouragement and childish conduct. Xiao Fang, an expert professor at Beijing Normal University, believes that during the Six Dynasties, Chu people incorporated the mourning of Sima Qian into the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival, giving a new interpretation to the custom of dragon boat racing. This explanation is not nonsense, it is the focus of people's historical time feeling and the reflection of people's historical time consciousness in holiday customs.

Dragon boat race is popular all over the world, not only because it is a part of China traditional culture with a long history, which can strengthen exercise and promote physical and mental health, but also because the culture and art contained in the dragon boat race conform to our core concepts of pursuing perfection, progress and harmonious life.

This significance gives new vitality to the dragon boat race, and also makes this long-standing theme activity melt into the gas field of the times. In the tide of world cultural and artistic integration, it is very important to maintain its true cultural and artistic identity and improve the cohesion of the Chinese nation. Therefore, Xiao Fang thinks that during the Dragon Boat Festival, various traditional festivals will be held, and traditional culture will be integrated into folk culture variety shows, so that everyone can return to the traditional style in this special festival, and the high-quality folk culture tradition will be continuously upgraded in contemporary life in the dialogue with ancestors.