"April 8, the dragon boat dug through the bottom",
The "Rise the Dragon" ceremony is:
The beginning of the Dragon Boat Festival series of dragon boat customs.
On the morning of May 13, in Jiaomen River, Nansha Street, Nansha District, villagers started the traditional "dragon" ceremony. At the event site, after three hours of hard work, the "Dragon" team successfully "lifted" a dragon boat that had been "sleeping" underwater for about 12 years.
The "dragon rising" ceremony of the day
Including sacrificial prayer meetings,
Dig out the dragon boat and clean the dragon boat
and other links.
At the scene of the ceremony, the drums sounded, the firecrackers rang out, after the traditional worship ceremony, the villagers who participated in the "dragon" jumped into the Jiaomen River, swam to the corner of the Jiaomen River to hide the position of the dragon boat, and after half a day's work, the two ends of a dragon boat about 30 meters long gradually emerged from the water.
Subsequently, the villagers worked together to dig up the dragon boat hidden in the water and clean up the mud and other debris on the hull. With the efforts of a group of people, after some "dressing up", this dragon boat gradually regained its former majesty.
After the "dragon" ceremony, it is also necessary to renovate, overhaul, maintain and other processes of the dragon boat, and then apply tung oil, choose a good day and auspicious day for green picking, and install the dragon head and dragon tail, drum rack, gong stand, flag, etc.
It is reported that the dragon boat dug up that day was made by Mr. Lu Gequan, the inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Guangdong Province.
As the fourth-generation inheritor of dragon boat skills, Mr. Lu has been engaged in dragon boat manufacturing for 44 years, and the dragon boats made by him have a dense palm, which cannot accommodate a single strand of hair, and will not fall apart or rip.
The wood used in the production does not use any adhesive substance, and the bites of various specifications are chiseled by hand and then carefully smoothed, and the deviation of the side position is controlled within 1 cm regardless of whether it is a long or short dragon. Therefore, the dragon boat dug up after many years is still intact.
Dragon Boat Race is a large-scale folk activity of traditional festivals with a long history and characteristics, and it is also an intangible cultural heritage project of Guangdong Province.
The climate of Guangdong is humid and rainy, in order to prevent the dragon boat from mold, after the dragon boat race every year, people will hide most of the dragon boat at the bottom of the river, which is a unique "hidden dragon" method invented by the ancestors. The wooden dragon boat preserved in this way can survive for hundreds of years without deterioration.
The villagers sank the boat under the water, hid in the bottom of the river, and wrapped the dragon boat in slippery mud to isolate the boat from the air. The following year, the "Hidden Dragon" is waiting to be awakened, which is the essence of dragon boat culture unique to the Lingnan region.
Guangzhou South Salon Boat Race has a history of 37 years, almost every historic village in Nansha, will build their own dragon boat, in the fourth lunar month of each year, the villagers choose an auspicious day to "take the dragon", the dragon boat is placed in the river silt have been "awakened", ready for the annual dragon boat event.
△Nansha local dragon boat team trains on the Jiaomen River
To this day, the villages in Nansha District still retain traditional dragon boat ceremonies such as "dragon lifting", "green picking" and "visiting relatives", as well as dragon boat dinners full of strong local flavor.
Countless new generations have found a sense of belonging, identity and pride in this lively traditional cultural atmosphere, and are also injecting new vitality into the development and inheritance of folk culture.
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Correspondent: Nansha Street Comprehensive Service Center
Text: Qiu Jiayu
Picture: Nansha Street Comprehensive Service Center, data map
Editor: Zhang Jinxin
Proofreader: Pan Xiaoting
Second trial: Li Xiatong
Final review: Li Lizhi
Producer: Nansha District Rong Media Center
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