Dragon Boat Race to welcome the Dragon Boat Festival in Southwest Lake to perform “speed and passion” on the water

6On the morning of the 12th, the opening ceremony of the 2021 Jiaxing Dragon Boat Festival Folk Culture Festival and the “Wufangzhai Cup” Dragon Boat Race and White Boat Tournament were held in the Southwest Lake Ecological Park, which kicked off this year’s Dragon Boat Festival series of activities. Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee Zhang Bing and Deputy Director of the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism Ye Jing jointly sounded the gong for the opening of the 2021 Jiaxing Dragon Boat Festival Folk Culture Festival. City leaders Mao Hongfang, Liu Dongsheng, Gao Linghui, Wang Tao and others attended.

In the morning, the people around the waters of Southwest Lake were full of voices. With an order, the drums sounded, water splashed in the channel, and the paddle wheels moved, demonstrating the “speed and passion” on the water.

400Racing on the meter straight road and circling obstacles to grab lotus flowers, 14 dragon boat teams and 14 white boat teams from Jiaxing and other regions competed fiercely, bringing a wonderful performance to citizens and tourists.

The annual Dragon Boat Festival Folk Culture Festival, the most passionate and enthusiastic is the dragon boat race and the white boat show competition held on the same day. During this period, 5 events with distinctive characteristics and different forms are successively carried out to set off the entire Dragon Boat Festival. Atmosphere. After the completion of the Mandarin Duck Covered Bridge, this year the citizens have another excellent spot to watch the game. In the hot summer, the enthusiasm of the citizens was not dissipated in the slightest. About 30 minutes before the start of the game, the waters of Southwest Lake were surrounded by people who came to watch. They took their families and hid in the shade of the trees and waited for the game to start.

9At about 30 o’clock, the first command signal sounded, and the citizens heard the sound and waved the flag for the athletes. Only the oars of the athletes on the boat on the water surface were flying, and the speed of the boat gradually increased, and it passed the finish line in a blink of an eye.

The annual dragon boat race not only attracts representatives from other regions to participate in the competition, but also attracts many international friends to compete with local dragon boat masters. This time, the Shanghai Dragon International Dragon Boat Team sent a representative team composed of 22 foreign players. With their strength, they broke through in the preliminaries and achieved good results in the finals.

As one of the third batch of intangible cultural heritage lists in Zhejiang Province, the Tabai Boat is quite popular among the people in Jiaxing Water Village. The boat used by the white-tacking boat is a common agricultural boat used by the Jiaxing people. This kind of boat has a slightly longer hull with an arc-shaped bottom. The wading resistance is very small, but the left and right stability is poor when swaying. The villagers call it “living.” Therefore, the white boat riding performance has the characteristics of fast speed and thrilling when racing.

In addition to the fierce white boat and dragon boat races, the traditional project “Lotus Grabbing” is also full of fun. Each participating team must drive boats around the obstacles in the competition channel. Each channel is equipped with buoys. The competition boats must bypass each buoy. After all the buoys are completed, they can grab the lotus at the end point. Each team will be determined according to the length of the completion time. The ranking of the participating teams.

“This test of the boatman’s skills is not only a competition of strength, but also a tacit understanding of the team.” A member of the Seven Star Street Representative Team in Nanhu District introduced that some members had to reduce their strength while others had to increase their strength when going around the bend. , Once it hits the buoy, it will disrupt the rhythm. The exquisite sailing skills of many delegations amazed the citizens and aroused applause from the audience. In the final finals, Xinxing Street in Nanhu District won the third place in the 400-meter straight racing event of the White Boat Exhibition Race, and the fourth place in the “White Boat Festival” event combined with the results of the “Lotus Grabbing” event.

In order to set off the festival atmosphere of the Dragon Boat Festival, a cultural and creative market was opened at the event site. Many of the stalls were also mixed with various traditional folk games and some exquisite handmade gifts were included. The children laughed constantly during the game.