Where is the Hengyang Dragon Boat Race held?

The Hengyang Dragon Boat Race is held in the Xiangjiang River Basin.

"Concentrate efforts to build a new Hengyang". Hengyang City’s first employee dragon boat race will be held in the Xiangjiang River Basin. Citizens can go to the Hejiangtao waters of the Xiangjiang River to watch a "Fast and Furious" show on the water.

On May 26, four dragon boat teams from the Municipal Public Security Bureau, Shigu District, Yanfeng District, and Zhuhui District held a dragon boat exchange race in the waters of Dongzhou Island in the Xiangjiang River.

***16 dragon boat teams in the city signed up to participate in the first employee dragon boat race. A 22-person dragon boat race was implemented. The participating team members included 20 paddlers, 1 coxswain, 1 drummer, and 4 substitutes. , the race is 500 meters long and divided into preliminaries, semi-finals and finals. In mid-June, a dragon boat race with the most Dragon Boat Festival atmosphere will be held in Hejiangtao waters.

The historical origin of dragon boat racing:

Dragon boat racing is a traditional custom during the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, it originated from the ancient Chu people who were reluctant to leave their virtuous minister Qu Yuan and threw himself into the river. Many people rowed boats to chase and save him. They scrambled to catch up to Dongting Lake, but there was no trace of him. After that, people rowed dragon boats every May 5th to commemorate it.

He rowed a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river to prevent them from eating Qu Yuan's body. The custom of racing was popular in Wu, Yue and Chu. In fact, "dragon boat racing" existed long before Qu Yuan. Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Test" said that more than a thousand years before Qu Zi threw himself into the river, the custom of dragon boat rowing had already existed in the Wuyue water town. The purpose was to worship the totem - the dragon, in order to pray to avoid common floods and droughts. disaster.

The dragon is the national totem of the Han people in the Central Plains and the South. Mr. Wen Yiduo pointed out in his three works "Fuxi Kao", "Dragon and Phoenix" and "Dragon Boat Kao" that after unifying the Central Plains, the Yellow Emperor The symbol of one's own tribe is combined with the iconic patterns of other annexed clans and tribes, and finally combined into the image "dragon" worshiped by the Han people, a virtual comprehensive god, which has become the symbol of the Han people.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Boat Race