The origin and meaning of Dragon Boat Racing

The origin and symbolism of dragon boat racing are as follows:

The symbolism of dragon boat racing on the Dragon Boat Festival is to pray for blessings and hope for good weather, bad luck, disasters, and good fortune in the year.

1, Qu Yuan is a patriotic poet of the Warring States period of Chu, in the State of Chu Ying was attacked, Qu Yuan on the fifth day of the fifth of May to hold the stone thrown into the Miluo River and died, Qu Yuan died, the people of Chu grieve different

often, have flocked to the Miluo River to visit the Qu Yuan. The fishermen rowed up their boats and went back and forth on the river to salvage his real body, and they scrambled and chased him to Dongting Lake when he was nowhere to be seen.

After that, there was the activity of paddling a dragon boat on May 5 every year in honor of Qu Yuan, and there was also a saying that the paddling of the dragon boat was used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body.

In Miluo City, Hunan Province, before the race to the Qu Zi Temple Temple, will be offered to the dragon head in the temple worship God, Phi red cloth in the dragon head, and then installed in the dragon head on board the boat race, both the worship of the Dragon God,

and to commemorate the Qu Yuan. Qu Yuan's hometown of zigui in hubei province, there are also worshipping Qu Yuan's rituals passed down.

2. Long before Qu Yuan Yuan, Yuanling had dragon boats. Yuanling dragon boat originated in ancient times, the object of worship is the five streams of various tribes **** the same ancestor of Pan gourd. He had settled in a stone cave in Yuanling's Half Creek and gave birth to six sons and six daughters, who married each other and multiplied into six ethnic groups: Miao, Yao, Dong, Tu, She and Li. After his death, the six ethnic groups invited the gods to invoke his spirit. Because of the dense water in Yuanling Mountains, the sorcerer did not know where his soul had landed, so he let the tribes build a dragon boat and searched for him by stream and river, which evolved into the later ritual of rowing a boat to invoke his soul.

3, the dragon boat race is the beginning of the ancient Yue people sacrificed to the water god or dragon god of a ritual activity, the ancient dragon boat race is a ritual ceremony in the half-religious, half-entertainment program. Dragon boat racing

boat before the first held a variety of sacrifices, commemorative ceremonies, praying for a good harvest, wind and rain, to the evil spirits, disasters, all the best, but also blessed rowing peace, and later gradually evolved

turned into a racing sports activities.