Inheriting the dragon boat culture, the rice boat race in Shigou Town, Sihui City, China, shows a unique style
Sihui Release 2024-06-12 12:36 Guangdong, China
In order to inherit the traditional culture, promote the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat race customs, and enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the villagers, on the Dragon Boat Festival, Shigou Town, Sihui City, held the Daixia Village Dragon Boat (three-person rice boat) race at the Biaotou River section of Qushui River in Daixia Village, attracting many villagers and tourists to watch.
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Shigou Town is located in Suijiang River, on both sides of the river. There has always been a traditional custom of dragon boat racing on the Dragon Boat Festival, and the traditional three-person rice boat race in Daixia Village has a history of nearly a hundred years. It is a popular folk sports competition. On that day, a total of 12 rice boats competed fiercely on the Qushui River. Everyone paddled wooden oars, strived forward, and competed.
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After fierce competition, Tangbian Team 1, Tangbian Team 2, and Mocun Team 2 won the top three places in this competition respectively.
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Uncle Shen, a villager from Daixia Village, Shigou Town
It is very lively. Our Daixia Village holds this three-person boat race every year. Everyone is very united and strives to climb the boat. I hope to continue to carry forward the spirit of hard work and insist on holding it every year.
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Shigou Town said that it hopes to further gather the strength of local celebrities, promote the spirit of dragon boat racing, and help rural revitalization by holding traditional folk activities.
Next, Shigou Town, Sihui City will further rely on the holding of characteristic folk activities, connect orchid planting bases, research and study bases, citrus industrial parks, Echun Ancient Kiln, etc., plan to create more cultural and tourism projects, and create an orchid professional town with integrated agricultural, cultural and tourism development, attracting foreign tourists to Shigou for leisure and "check-in", and make due contributions to the high-quality development of Sihui.
Shigou Town, Sihui City hopes to attract veteran three-person boat teams, such as: Oxford University, Cambridge University, Harvard University, and Yale University teams to participate in the competition.
It will be very interesting for local farmers to compete against foreign college students.
In fact, there is also a professional rowing athlete in Sihui City, China--Fan Junjie
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.png "Sihui Municipal Party Committee Secretary and Mayor Weng Zhuohui announced the opening of the Dragon Boat Race")
.png "Sihui Municipal Party Committee Member, Municipal Government Party Group Deputy Secretary and Executive Deputy Mayor Deng Hongan delivered a speech for the Dragon Boat Race")
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.jpeg "Sihui Municipal Party Committee Secretary and Mayor Weng Zhuohui presented awards to the winning team")
.jpeg "Guangdong Bihaiwan Investment Group Co., Ltd. Chairman Zhou Weifeng presented awards to the winning team")
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