Title: A Study on the Etiquettes of "Dragon Boat Racing" of Shunde
Abstract: People in North China like jockey,while the ones in the South enjoy boat race.This is both the different lifestyles between the north and south and the significant symbol of two different kinds of culture.Dragon Boat Racing is not only the main content of the Dragon Boat Festival in Shunde,but also the most solemn folk activities in this water village.From Jingtai years of the Ming Dynasty,it has inherited the custom of dragon visiting,contacting the nostalgia.Dragon boat is long regarded as divine dragon in the region incarnation of Pearl River Delta.The ethnic units of Shunde form a set of traditional and mystical rituals and complete custom program in this activities.It is conducive to the reconstruction of the traditional culture of the water ethnic,and it has also become a cultural brand and city card of Foshan especially Shunde on foreign propaganda.In modern urbanization,local culture plays a tough game with urban commercial civilization.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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