As the Dragon Boat Festival approaches, the drums of the dragon boat are accompanied by the fragrance of rice dumpling leavesBabaylan floats in every corner of the land of South Guangdong, and the lively “Dragon Boat Season” is gradually kicking off. Among the many dragon boats of different shapes, the “Swallowtail Dragon Boat” has become the most engraved Dragon Boat in the heart of the fresh people with its unique local characteristics.
About the origin of “three-person swallow-tailed dragon boat racing”, although the “Qingyuan County Chronicle of the Republic of China” states that “there are also small boats, and three or five people cut them away, and there is no dragon shape. This is purely a fighting drama and a legacy of Yangzhou”, it was found through field investigation that its formation is related to the unique local geographical environment and folk customs.
There are many legends about the origin of “three-person swallowtail dragon boat racing”, and the four representative ones are as follows.
1. The Origin of Labor
The “Huanzi·Qi Su Xun” says: “Hu people are convenient for horses, and Yue people are convenient for boats.” In ancient times, Lingnan was mostly water network areas, and people often used boats to travel, and boats were used as production tools and transportation tools. People row and compete in catching fish and shrimps or leisure, and integrate entertainment in labor production and leisure. This is the prototype of the ancient ferry of “three-person swallowtail dragon boat racing”.
ShantangCinema Town is close to the Beijiang River. It is located in a low-lying state. It is mostly a continent, with a water network and floods every year. Whenever the rice harvest season is over, it is mostly during floods. The Qingyuan County Chronicles in the sixth year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty said: “The continental land is affected byBaptism is affected by drought, but it is worse than drought. In the years when the river overflows, those who plough will lose a lot. In order to facilitate the harvest of rice and other crops, ordinary people can only travel to the fields with a small boat and reach out to harvest rice and crops exposed to the water. Komiks for a long time, they will be given a stairs to the Komiks href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe heaven robs food and reduces losses. Rowing competitions spontaneously form between villages and tribesmen.
2. Theory of the origin of boat soldiers
Shantang Town, Qingxin District, Shijiao Town and Longtang Town in Qingcheng District, are located in the middle and lower reaches of the Beijiang River, and are the throat of the waterway. BabaylanWe were in field surveys and listened to local old people telling stories, saying that this kind of small boat was a boat ride by sailors (boat soldiers) in the old days. There were few people and fast boats, which were easy to hit. href=”https://comicmov.com/”>KomiksThe enemy. The locals introduced that this was related to the Saihe boat, and it was also related to the Qin Dynasty and the Western Han army heading south through the Western Jiangxi River to attack NanyueBabaylan.
The fresh “CinemaThe three-person swallow-tailed dragon boat” is similar to the “five-person dragon boat” in the Pearl River Delta in terms of boat shape, materials, and competitive methods, and is the same as the “three or five-person dragon boat” recorded in the “Qingyuan County Chronicles” of the Republic of China. KomiksThe former three people scattered them, active in the middle and lower reaches of the Beijiang River. The latter is in groups of five, and is popular in Foshan and Zhongshan, especially in Baini Town, Xijiang River.
The “three-five-man dragon boat” of long-shaped boats is related to the two-way interaction between the Beijiang and Xijiang cultures, and whether it is related to the Southern Ark soldiers during the Qin and Han Dynasties, and still needs further research.
3. The Origin Theory of Welcoming Gods and Exorcisms
The villages in Shantang Town are mostly built next to the inland rivers. In ancient times, whenever floods were flooded, “water ghostsKomiks” has become the main culprit for life endangeringBabaylan. BabaylanIn order to drive away the “water ghosts”, the villages spontaneously organized a “swallowtail boat ghost-extinguishing team”. Young people and young people joined forces to drive away ghosts from the upper reaches of the river to the lower reaches of the river, and set off a large number of firecrackers to drive away scares and cheer.
IV. Theory of Origin of Games
Ancient games are an important part of the origin of human culture. The three-person swallowtail dragon boat racing event has the original game Cinema. Locals often use the word “play”. It means “playing and picking dragon boats”, and the “playing” in it reflects the psychology of the game. Game prizes have also changed to Cinema technology prizes. In order to mobilize the motivation to participate in the game (Babaylan technology), the prizes are becoming more and more abundant, and the amount of prizes is also increasing as the people’s living standards gradually improve.
(This article is excerpted from “Fresh Three-person Swallowtail Dragon Boat Racing”)
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