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Pulling Dragon Boat One of the folk sports activities of the Tujia people--Pulling Dragon Boat

Plucking Dragon Boat of the Tujia people is rowing or paddling a dragon boat. It is named because the boat is plucked on the water with wooden oars for action. Tujia rowing dragon boat or called dragon boat race, but also the southern waters of the region of the various ethnic groups **** have traditional cultural and sports activities. However, the Tujia's dragon boat pulling activities are unique and have their own local characteristics. Dragon boat has a water dragon boat, color dragon boat, dry dragon boat points, the activity time is in the first month of the lunar calendar, May or year-round irregularly.

(a) pulling the water dragon boat

This activity, and other ethnic areas of the dragon boat paddling is much the same. The Tujia people live in the Youshui, Yuanshui, Lishui and Qingjiang River, Wujiang River and other watersheds, there are pulling the water dragon boat race sports habits. It is known as the Red and White Dragon Tail Race. It is characterized by: long race period, full of national unity atmosphere. Dragon boat model is simple and ancient, all by the folk rely on their own and spontaneous organization of the fleet. The Dragon Boat Race is divided into two traditional festivals: "Five Dragons" and "Six Dragons". The "Five Dragons" is the day of welcoming dragons and the "Six Dragons" is the day of sending dragons. The time of the two festivals is counted from the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Fengchen for the "five dragons" day, customarily referred to as the dragon's head day, twelve-day rotation, and so on, counting down, counting to the dragon day in June for the "six dragons". Sections before the race, first by the host village to invite all the fleet masters to eat a reunion dinner, and then to each dragon boat on the red, hanging colors, to show auspicious and smooth. Race to dragon boat red, white tail each other as opponents. Red, white team more than clan relatives as the main division, and now to the village, walled village as a unit team. Flotilla number varies, there are 15 pairs, 24 pairs and 30 pairs, etc., by an elder as a drummer, one as a gong player, but also dressed as a clown waving the flag, the sound of the cannon, the boat sailors according to the rhythm of the drums and gongs shouting "hey, hey ...... the horn paddle forward, scrambling to the finish line. Plucked dragon boat, there are downstream plucking and river crossing two forms. The river crossing people on the other side of the bank erected a red flag, not only to see whose dragon boat first plucked to the shore, but also to see who first grabbed the red flag. Therefore, the boat puller and the red flag grabber should work well together, take the dragon boat to the bank and quickly get off the boat and run to grab the flag to win. The winner is the one who pulls the boat downstream and sees who reaches the finish line first. Especially when pulling to the end of the need to go around from the other side in front of the dragon boat, known as "spinning the lid" for victory, no more than the entire dragon boat position is not possible to "spin the lid" and win. Nowadays, there are referees for flower boat pulling competitions, and the number of crews is equal, and the winners and losers are divided by timed competitions.

(B) pull the colorful dragon boat

Every year to the first three to fifteen days of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, the Tujia people living in the area can be seen colorful colorful dragon boat activities. Colorful dragon boat, is a small bamboo or gabion tied into a boat-shaped skeleton (specifications of the boat body length of 1 zhang, boat belly width of 1.5 feet), with 3 feet of blue and green silk cloth around the boat along the upper edge around the mouth of the boat tied, the lower side of the towing ground, meant for the green river; the boat body is divided into three segments, the front section of the sub-four-foot-long for the bow, in the middle of the section of the 1.5-foot-long for the belly of the boat, the back of the section of the 4.5-foot-long for the boat tail; the bow of the boat tail above the red cloth sealing good, the belly of the boat to leave the air not sealed, from the The belly of the boat on both sides of the boat along the Department of a colorful belt; the belly of the boat before and after the vertical 4 more than one person high bamboo poles tied to the side of the boat, the top of the boat into a warped four corners of the top of the roof of the canopy, decorated with colorful paper for the beauty of the colorful canopy. Colorful dragon boat made.

Pull color dragon boat show, generally 5-7 people to participate, were dressed as: color lotus women, by a young girl dressed in national costume, facing the bow, the belly of the boat on both sides of the colorful belt set on the shoulders to carry the boat from the ground with both hands to help the boat along the edge of the colorful silk cloth is not allowed to show their feet; fiber man, head wearing a melon grass hat of the Tujia students from the bow of the boat to tie a rope with both hands to grasp the end of the back of the fibers in the shoulder bent over the boat forward; helmsman, head wearing a straw hat, hand-held boat forward; boatman, head wearing a straw hat, hands to help the boat, the boat is not allowed to show his legs. The helmsman, wearing a straw hat, hand-held rudder handle of the white bearded old man, smooth support rudder; oarsman, dressed in Tujia clothing 2-4 young men, in the colorful boat on the left and right sides (each side of the 1-2 people) holding a wooden oar from time to time to do rowing action. In the singing of the colorful boat tune and the sound of gongs and drums and locks, the colorful lotus woman will lift the boat up and down to lift the bow and warp the stern, the fiberglass man pulls the fiber with force in the front, the boatman swings the stern in the back, and the oarsman rows the wooden oars with force in the front. Color boat when in and out, when fast and slow, sometimes bumpy back and forth, sometimes rocking and undulating, like a real boat drifting in the river. Color boat drifting beach over the rapids, line speed up, the bow and stern of each other, the crowd called "yell", around the audience burning firecrackers to help, lively and extraordinary. Color boat to the cottage village to village, to each door to sing: "fortune into the treasure", "happy door", "open the door", "full red", "open the door", "congratulations on wealth" and other auspicious lyrics. Sometimes, the singer pulling the fiber, see the scene, improvisation, singing the blessing of the family's song, the master of the favorite. The master will set off firecrackers "dragon dragon", some people also want to give the color dragon boat threw red envelopes, color dragon boat play more vigorously, drums and gongs, firecrackers continuous, the Tujia cottage a happy.

(C) carry dry dragon boat

Dry dragon boat, is made of thin cedar planks 3 feet long, 1 foot wide boat, the bottom of the boat An four-foot wooden frame, the top of the frame across the mounting of a wooden stretcher, the boat is also used to make thin boards feet high 1.5 feet long boat canopy, canopy for red (male), white (female) two human head statue, the Turkish people called it "Luo Gong Luo Niang". Like the front of a bamboo tube inserted with incense, the human head in front of the statue of the left and right and below the hanging of colored silk cloth or Tujia girls embroidered flower handkerchiefs. Dry dragon boat canopy for the two heads, legend has it that Fuxi siblings, red-faced male head is brother, white-faced female head is sister, that is, refers to the pendulum dance in the "brother and sister into marriage" section of the two siblings. When the brother and sister get married, the elder brother thinks that he is a sibling, and is so shy that he turns red, and the younger sister covers her face with a green silk scarf in order to avoid being laughed at, and the Dry Dragon Boat is used for these two siblings to commemorate the merit of the brother and sister in reproducing human beings. The person who carries the dry dragon boat is a man who is flexible and eloquent, and he carries the flat burden with his shoulder from the wooden frame at the back of the statue of a human head, and carries the dry dragon boat all the year round (in the first month of the Chinese lunar calendar, in full bloom) to the villages and villages. After entering the end of each house, he puts the dry dragon boat in the middle of the house and sings the legendary story of "Brother and Sister Getting Married", and then sings blessing songs such as "Adding Sons and Grandchildren, Full of Children and Grandchildren, and Prosperity of the People and the West" to the master. The master will burn incense, hang colorful cloth strips and flower handkerchiefs, flower children's shoes and hats in front of the heads of the siblings, praying for the blessing of the Luo Gong Luo Niang for the prosperity of their children and grandchildren. At the same time, they have to send money and rice to the person who carries the dragon boat. Wish the dry dragon boat go more and more red hot, wish the Tujia cottage prosperous, prosperous. Carrying the dry dragon boat into the village, the children ran to see the fun, adults (especially the middle-aged and elderly) to listen to the singing, eloquent singer, won the audience applauded, the scene as a celebration.