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Dragon Boat Racing

The fifth day of the fifth month in the Chinese calendar is the day to hold dragon boat racing, as a indispensable part of Duan Wu festival. It is an exciting time for most Chinese people to celebrate a big festival and memorize the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
What is Dragon Boat Racing?

Many ethnic groups in southern China and Han People have continued the custom of the Dragon Boat Race for the Dragon Boat Festival. The Zhuang, Miao, Dai, Bai, and Tujia people decorate the boats to resemble a dragon and shout their support with drums and gongs. Craftsmen exercise their skills to the full with their carving and paintings to decorate each boat.

Similar to outrigger canoe racing but unlike competitive rowing and canoe

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racing, dragon boating has a rich fabric of ancient ceremonial, ritualistic and religious traditions. In other words, the modern competitive aspect is but one small part of this complex of water craftsmanship.

In competitions the dragon boat race often appears as a group item. Nowadays the boat is usually around 20 meters long and 1 meter wide. A participating team will have oarsmen or oarswomen, a coxswain, a gong beater and a drummer. The oarsmen will row and keep stroking, following the rhythmical drumbeats.
Qu yuan

How does Dragon Boat Racing come into being?

Contemporary folk tradition commonly attributes dragon boating racing's origins to the saving of a drowning folk hero in the 4th century BCE, Qu Yuan. He was a loyal minister serving the King of Chu during the Warring States Period. Initially his sovereign favored Qu Yuan, but over time, his wisdom and erudite ways antagonized other court officials. As a result Qu Yuan was accused of trumped-up charges of conspiracy and ejected by his sovereign.
In the year 278 BCE, at the age of 37, Qu Yuan drowned himself in the Milo River. He clasped a heavy stone to his chest and leaped into the water. Knowing that Qu Yuan was a righteous man, the people of Chu rushed to the river to try to save him. The people desperately searched the waters in their boats looking for Qu Yuan but were unsuccessful in their attempt to rescue him. Every year the Dragon Boat Festival is celebrated to commemorate this attempt at rescuing Qu Yuan.

There is another origin interpreting the formation of Dragon Boat Festival. It is said the festival is for honoring water dragons, for in some regions of China, people consider water dragons as the most powerful dragons. By honoring the dragons, farmers will have water (rain) for their crop next year. Since the dragon is the god of the water world, after the dragon boats sail in

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the water, the water will be blessed. It is also a tradition for people to wash their hair and body with the blessed water on the day to ensure good luck the coming year.

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