A cultural symbol that consolidates the hearts of the people and praises China's Dragon Boat Race for its cultural heritage and traditions
Zhang Lin
The Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional Chinese festival, and dragon boat racing is an important event on this day. As an important carrier of traditional culture, the Dragon Boat Festival has a long history and profound cultural heritage, and has become a cultural symbol that unites people's hearts. Behind this symbol lies the enduring power of traditional Chinese culture that transcends time and space.
The Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat race is a cultural activity with strong regional and collective characteristics. For example, dragon boats in Guangdong have been thriving and attracting thousands of tourists every year; Dragon boat racing is a very popular activity in Hunan, Hubei and other places. Tongding Town in Zhongfang County, Huaihua, Hunan is a small town on the banks of the Yuanjiang River and also the birthplace of swallowtail dragon boats.
Both the scale of the dragon boat race and the enthusiasm of the participants fully demonstrate the charm of this traditional culture. Everyone is fully immersed in the competition, with participants rowing hard in the water and the audience cheering and cheering on the shore. This sense of collective honor and belonging makes people more closely connected on the Dragon Boat Festival, forming a special cultural atmosphere. People cross different teams and regions, exchange and cooperate, enhance each other's emotions, form a united and upward social atmosphere, and form a common recognition of traditional Dragon Boat Festival culture, which is passed down from generation to generation.
The role of the Dragon Boat Race in consolidating people's hearts is closely related to its profound historical and cultural heritage, social and historical background, and political and economic factors.
As an ancient folk activity, the Dragon Boat Race originated in the pre Qin period and has a history of over two thousand years. There are different interpretations of its origin, such as the worship of Qu Yuan, the water god, the dragon god, etc., but later generations generally believe that it was to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. It is said that after Qu Yuan died, people rowed boats to salvage his body, and threw Zongzi and other food into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from eating him. Since then, the Dragon Boat Race has spread in all corners of China, becoming one of the important symbols of Chinese civilization.
In the development of Chinese social history, the Dragon Boat Festival competition also has special value. The Dragon Boat Festival falls at the turn of spring and summer, and is a season prone to outbreaks of diseases. In order to drive away mosquitoes and prevent diseases in the river, people use dragon boats to perform "river god worship". In addition, dragon boat racing is also a form of entertainment that allows people to relax and unwind during their busy lives. Therefore, dragon boat racing during the Dragon Boat Festival not only inherits historical and cultural heritage, but also serves as a way of social life.
Today, with the development of the Chinese economy and the rise of tourism, the cultural and commercial values of the Dragon Boat Festival race are actively integrated, shining with a new era of brilliance. Governments and enterprises across the country have invested funds and manpower to hold dragon boat races, vigorously promoting the inheritance of traditional culture and the development of modern tourism, becoming an important cultural stage for rallying people's hearts in the new era.