What does a dragon boat look like?

Dragon boat race originated in China and is a popular folk activity in East and Southeast Asia. A dragon boat is a boat painted with the shape of a dragon or a dragon.

Dragon boat race is a traditional folk water sport and entertainment in China, which is mostly held on festive festivals. This is a team rowing competition. Dragon boat racing originated in the Han Dynasty.

Dragon boat race is not only a kind of sports and entertainment activities, but also embodies the long history and cultural heritage tradition of our country and people's collectivism spirit.

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Dragon Boat Festival, Lantern Festival (also known as dragon dancing and dragon lantern playing) and Dragon Head Festival on February 2 are important folk activities in Dadong Yalong Cultural District, because of the spread of Chinese culture and the large number of Chinese in Southeast Asia such as Singapore and Malaysia.

Speaking of the origin of dragon boat, people will naturally think of commemorating Qu Yuan. In fact, as a kind of culture, dragon boat appeared much earlier than Qu Yuan's time. According to experts' research, the precondition of dragon boat race must be in areas rich in rice, rivers and ports, which is the characteristic of southern China. Among the records of the origin of dragon boat in ancient books, it first appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty. According to this, it can be speculated that the custom of Dragon Boat Festival may be popular only in wuyue ethnic groups in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River at first, and then the Wuyue culture gradually merged with the Central Plains culture, and this custom spread to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the northern regions.

It is also rumored that the dragon boat originated in Yuanling, northwest Hunan. In the book "Millennium Dragon Boat in Yuanling", which reflects the profoundness of China dragon boat culture and the historical origin of Yuanling dragon boat, there are 104 writers and scholars' incisive exposition on Yuanling dragon boat. These articles scientifically and systematically demonstrate the origin of Yuanling traditional dragon boat, and record the scale of Yuanling dragon boat race and the construction of the boat. Yuanling Dragon Boat originated 5,000 years ago, so it is more than 3,000 years earlier than the statement commemorating Qu Yuan.

The following are pictures of the dragon boat race: