The Dragon Boat Festival is only a three-day vacation, and in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, there is a place where dragon boat races are held for the longest time. The time for dragon boat racing is not one or two days, but can be up to a month, they call this period of time Dragon Boat Month, and during the event, there will be big and small activities in all towns and villages in Dongguan.
The organizers will "Dongguan Dragon Boat Month" during the folk culture activities as a time node, unified publicity, unified packaging, comprehensively enhance the spirit of the Dongguan Dragon Boat, Dongguan Dragon Boat culture heritage.
In this year's "Dongguan Dragon Boat Month", Wanjiang, Shijie, Daojiao, Zhongtang, Changping, Hongmei, Houjie, Wangniudun, Shipai, Shatian, GaoShu, MaYong and other more than 10 towns and streets, will be opened one after another, a variety of rich and varied form of race dragon boat related activities, including dragon boat tournament, dragon boat racing, dragon boat while the scene, Dancing Wooden Dragon, Parade of Dry Wooden Dragon, Dragon Boat Cultural Festival, "City Memory" Dragon Boat Festival Photography Program. Memory" Dragon Boat Festival photography contest, as well as the "Race for the Dragon" folk music recital and other related cultural and artistic performances, exciting.
Interested members of the public should not miss these opportunities to experience the rich traditional atmosphere of the festival.
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Dongguan Dragon Boat Month
Dragon boat racing is a national non-heritage project in Dongguan. Dongguan people race dragon boat, lasts a long time, so it is also known as "Dongguan Dragon Boat Month", Dongguan is the most influential, the largest number of participants in the traditional cultural activities. Set the standard called race, that is, the competition; not set the standard called while the scene.
Wanjiang Kau Lian Zhengya Village dragon, marking the beginning of the "Dongguan Dragon Boat Month".
Wanjiang
(1) 2019 Dongguan Dragon Boat Month start and Wanjiang Dragon Boat Dragon Ceremony
Time: the eighth day of the fourth month of the Lunar Calendar (Sunday, May 12) 9:30
Location: Dongguan Wanjiang Kau Lian Zhengya Dragon Square
Content: reproduce the ceremony.
Participation: go and watch on your own
(2) Wanjiang Dragon Boat Cultural Festival
Activity time: June 3 (the first day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar) opening
The day of the morning will be held in the Dragon Boat Championships, when the public can go to the event site to feel the hundreds of barges, the sound of the drums, the joy of thousands of people! The people can go to the event site to feel the boat racing, drums, the vibration of the sky, thousands of people in the streets of the joyful scene and the Dragon Boat Festival, a traditional festival of the unique festive atmosphere.
Dongguan Wanjiang, Dongjiang River water Pei yet to, because the river and the river and thousands and named! Wanjiang villagers familiar with the water, love of water sports, dragon boat racing is unique!
At the same time, because the Wanjiang Dragon Boat Race is held in Dongguan during the Dragon Boat Festival in all the Dragon Boat Race held in the earliest and the most large-scale, there is a "Dongguan Dragon Boat the first scene" of the reputation!
Zhongtang
Activity time: June 15 (Lunar May 13)
Activity location: Zhongtang Town, Riverside Road, Dragon Boat Plaza River
Machong
Machong, "Dragon Boat View", is the first time that a dragon boat race is held in Dongguan. "Time:
June 18 (Lunar May 16) 12:00-14:00
Shatin
According to the experience of previous years Expected activity time: June 14 (Lunar May 12)
Expected activity location
Estimated time: June 5 (the third day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar)
Estimated location: Hongmei Town Promenade from the Hongmei Bridge to the Hongmei Public Security Sub-branch of the section corresponding to the Hongya Eddy waterway river
Shilong
Estimated time: June 16 (the fourteenth day of May in the Chinese lunar calendar)
Shi Pai
Estimated event time: June 8 (the sixth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar)
Wang Niu Dun
Estimated event time: June 7 (the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar)
Daogao
The first time I saw this event, it was the first time I had seen it. > Expected event date: June 4 (the second day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar)