The Dragon Boat Festival in Dongqian Lake started from Qianhu Temple Fair. Once upon a time, there were two lively temple fairs on September 11 and 16 of the lunar calendar. First, I painted "Bodhisattva Tour" in Zhousi, and then I went to Wat Phnom to celebrate my birthday. By then, all the villages at the foot of the temple will join the guild. On the day of the guild, there were bronze shovel teams, salute teams, pavilions, stilts and sand boats. As the leader, behind the "patrolling" Bodhisattva, there is a makeup team to "relieve the prisoners". Guild activities are lively and interesting, and the most exciting content is the dragon boat race.
According to legend, on September 11th of a certain year, the Taogongshan fleet won the dragon boat race in one fell swoop, and the winner got a bodhisattva back, so a boat painting temple was built in Caojiashantou, and the first day of September of the lunar calendar was designated as the boat painting festival every year. Dragon boats have been purchased in the old houses of Xinjiacun, Dashawu and Yongquanhui of all ethnic groups in Qianhu, and are firmly kept by special personnel. Every Dragon Boat Festival, foreign dragon boat performance teams will be invited to thousands of households to participate in the competition. Dragon boat races are handed down from generation to generation.
Every year on the 10th day of the ninth lunar month, all kinds of dragon boats meet in Qianhu Lake. The next morning, the audience gathered around Qianhu Stadium from all directions. On the lake, an 800-meter boat race waterway is drawn from Caojiashantou to Bunker Mountain. When the guild team arrived in Taogong to capture Loki, the dragon boat race began. As soon as the gongs and drums rang, the sailors struggled to paddle. At this time, the dragon boat on the water is like an arrow leaving the string, scrambling to make great contributions to Rowen ... When the dragon boat came back from the clam shell mountain, the distance was seconds, and the stadium entered a climax. The first sailor who landed jumped on the shore and picked up an altar of Shaoxing wine as a prize. The sailor of this dragon boat became the hero who won the dragon boat race.
The Dragon Boat Festival in Dongqian Lake is closely related to dragon culture. It is rooted in the beautiful Dongqian Lake, so it has its unique regional and cultural characteristics and is integrated with the landscape of Dongqian Lake. In the future, the activities of the Dragon Boat Festival will be more colorful, reflecting the spirit of the times and giving new connotations.
Dongqian Lake combines the folk customs of wuyue and the Central Plains, and it is surrounded by mountains and waters, so the folk customs are lively and soft, and the customs and habits take hard work as their virtue. Burning incense on the first day of the first lunar month, walking in Tomb-Sweeping Day, eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, racing dragon boats on the tenth day of the ninth lunar month, and eating moon cakes on the 16th of the eighth lunar month have enriched the folk customs here.