The “Five Classics of the Ming Dynasty” and Cixi awarded the dragon boat license plate…
No dragon boat, no Dragon Boat Festival. People in Pantang are like wandering in the dragon. No competition or fighting dragons, the dragons play just to enjoy themselves.
What traditional customs of dragon boats are there in Pantang? Recently, the reporter went to Pantang in person to learn about the dragon boat customs belonging to the Pantang people.
Walking along Liwan Lake, the reporter noticed two dragon boats docked by the lake. “This is a ‘double-side’ dragon boatCinema. Next to it is a ‘single-side’ dragon boat, a ‘single-side’ dragon boat, which is now very rare.” said a villager in Pantang Village.
After the guidance of the villagers, the reporter learned that the “single side” dragon boat refers to the “flower side” (the side of the ship) of the dragon boat uses a veneer structure. How has this “one-side” dragon ship with a history of more than 400 years been passed down to this day? Under the leadership of Li Guiheng, a villager in Pantang, the reporter walked into the original site of the Pantang third production team (the villagers called the “Sanguan Temple”) and listened to the old man Li Shengquan telling the story of Pantang dragon boat.
The “single side” and “double side” dragon boats are of particular importance
In the Sanguan Temple, bamboo hats, oars… items related to the dragon boats can be seen everywhere. In addition, the reporter also noticed two dragon boat models of Cinema in the indoor glass box.
“Our ‘s ‘single-side’ dragon boat is a ‘convex-eye dragon, a single-lou umbrella’. The difference from the salt-built old dragon next to it is that the Pantang dragon boat does not have a dragon head and a dragon tail.” Uncle Quan said that because the Pantang river channel was narrow, it used to be href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Cinema also does not have the technology to disassemble the dragon head and tail, so it has a structure like Pantang Dragon Boat.
From this model, looking at the structure of the “single-sided” dragon boat, in addition to the veneer structure and Duluo umbrella mentioned above, Uncle Quan also introduced that there are two single-sided gong racks in front and behind the dragon boat, with a drum rack in the middle to stabilize the structure of the entire dragon boat.
In addition to the structure, the decoration of the “one-side” dragon boat has always been praised. “There is a 6-meter-high seven-star map (flag) on the dragon boat. The top of the flag is decorated with 1Cinema rumored by Empress Dowager Cixi. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>KomiksBallon money and 9 pheasant tails. In addition, on both sides of the bow of the dragon boat are inlaid with a pair of gold and copper dragon eyes, and the ‘Renwei Wuyou’ dragon boat signs with black letters on white background. “
Every time traveling on the Dragon Boat Festival, when the dragon boat is fully decorated, the villagers raise their thumbs up and praise: “The Pantang dragon boat is really in shape!”
Growing up in Pantang with dense river nets, Uncle Quan has had a special emotion for the dragon boat since he was a child. He told reporters that the history of Pantang dragon boats that has lasted for hundreds of years has made the Pantang people proud.
The “one side” dragon boat continues the century-old love of “Qiye”
The one who witnessed the history of Pantang dragon boat was on the shipa double money and 9 pheasant tails. According to legend, on the Dragon Boat Festival in the 25th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, a son-in-law named Tao organized a dragon boat race competition in the Pearl River. The five-off dragon boat and the South China Sea Yanbu dragon boat that represented Pantang Village were fighting against each other, and both won the championship in the competition.
At that time, Mr. Tao awarded the five fastest dragon boats in the competition as “Five Classics”. The one who won the Grand Prix on the same day as Pantang was also the old dragon of Yanbu.
Although they are both the best in Dragon Boat, it is rare that neither villages care about rankings, but they also have a sense of mutual appreciation and mutual appreciation. “This is how it is. The old dragon of Yanbu has moustache, but the Pantang has no moustache, so one is the ‘Qiye’ and the other is the ‘Qizi’.”
Babaylan Since then, the two dragon boats have formed a comrade, and the friendship between the villagers in the two places has continued to this day.
After every year on the fifth day of the first lunar month, Yanbu Laolong would visit the “Qizai” Pantang Dragon Boat, and on the sixth day of the second day, Pantang Dragon Boat would visit the old dragon in Yanbu. Li Shengquan described the lively scene of “visiting relatives” every year to reporters: “On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the elderly in Pantang Village gathered at the entrance of the village and greeted the salt-bush dragon boats on the river. The salt-bush people on the dragon boats also bowed to show their greetings to each other.”
The “relatives” met, and the prestigious elders of Pantang also had to “hang red with flowers on their hair”, and gave gifts such as local specialty “Pantang Wuxiu”, and wrote “KomiksThe prestigious elders of Pantang also wanted to “skin” to “skin” and “skin” to “skin” and “skin” to “skin” and “skin” to “skin” and “skin” to “skin” in the past, and then the “skin” were captured by the sea. The black silk banner of href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan” is to show filial piety.
The “Youth Name” belonging to the younger generation
”The dragon is different from competition. Our tradition is to hold the radius in the backhand. The splashes of water are like stripsLike a little dragon leaping into the air. “Heng Ge from Pantang told reporters that every Pantang person has had a wish to row a dragon boat “single” since childhood.
But he also Cinema admitted that young and middle-aged people in the village should be busy with work on weekdays. If it weren’t for the Dragon Boat Festival, it would be difficult for all the staff to gather to visit the dragon.
The inheritance of generation after generation, dragon boat cultureKomiks has long been integrated into the blood of the youth generation of Pantang.
In 2014, the young people from Pantang five appointments raised funds to build the most fast and dynamic standard dragon boat, the Youth.
This “Youth” dragon boat with a total length of 19.8 meters and a size of about 30 people shows the vitality of young people.
”The third and fourth grade of the junior high school and the fourth grade of the junior high school, and the fifth and sixth grade of the junior high school” has been used to travel to the flower field. To this day, the dragon boat activities in Pantang are still carried out according to traditional customs.
On the Dragon Boat Festival, the neighbors will see the “single side” and “two side” old dragons, and Cinema and the “Youth” dragon boat swam together in Liwan Lake to inherit the century-old dragon boat culture. (Reporter Hu Huiyin)
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