The longest dragon boat in the world.
On the morning of June 12, 2023, a super-long giant dragon boat paddled in the cheers and shouts of the audience on both sides of the strait on the Lanxi River in Heshan District, Yiyang City.
Dragon Boat was built by Bei 'an New Village, Lanxi Town, Heshan District, with a length of 99.9 meters and a width of 1.88 meters. It has 65,438+006 compartments for 420 rowers. Officially performed on the river that day. It is known that this dragon boat is the longest dragon boat in the world at present, and it will sprint the Guinness World Record for the longest dragon boat.
Dragon boat race is the main custom of the traditional Han festival Dragon Boat Festival. Originally, it was a festival for China people to get rid of diseases and prevent epidemics. Before the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a custom of holding dragon totem sacrifice in the form of dragon boat race on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. 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.
Dragon boat race:
The size of dragon boats varies from place to place. The competition is to set sail at the same time within a specified distance, and decide the ranking in turn when reaching the finish line. The dragon boat races of all ethnic groups in China are slightly different.
Most Han people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival every year. The captain is generally 20-30 meters, and each ship has about 30 sailors. Miao people hold the Dragon Boat Festival from May 24th to 27th every year. It is about 20m long and 1m wide. It consists of three straight and thick Chinese fir trees, with a mother ship in the middle and sub-ships on both sides.
There are 38 sailors on each ship, with an elder as the drummer and a child disguised as a woman as the drummer. In the competition, as soon as the guns were heard, the sailors paddled along with the sound of gongs and drums.
The Dai people hold the Water Splashing Festival every year in June and July of the Dai calendar (after Tomb-Sweeping Day 10), and each ship has 600 sailors, 4 helmsmen and 4 pilots. During the competition, one person beat the gong to command, and the sailors paddled forward according to the rhythm of the gong. There are also women involved in this activity.