Location of Dragon Boat Race in Nanning in 2022

The activity will be held in the waters near Changyou Pavilion of Nanning Yongjiang Bridge on the morning of July 18 (this Sunday). This competition is sponsored by Nanning Sports Bureau and Nanning Sports Federation. Nearly 600 athletes from 30 teams from all over Guangxi will participate in the 300-meter and 200-meter straight races of 12 and 22-person dragon boats respectively.

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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.