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Dragon Boat Races Celebrate China's Ancient Past | National Geographic
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- Опубликовано: 6 июл 2018
- Near the summer solstice, communities across China gather to race boats, many adorned with painted carvings of dragons.
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It’s clear to see how Duanwu Jie, China’s summer solstice holiday, got its English-language name-the Dragon Boat Festival. Around the fifth day of the fifth month on the traditional Chinese calendar, people gather to race boats adorned with brightly-painted carvings of dragons. Designs and types of contest vary widely. Some races are intense athletic challenges, while other events are more of a community get-together. Stories link the festival with the poet Qu Yuan, born in the late fourth century B.C. Said to be an able minister of the Chu state who was banished from the court, Qu Yuan despaired at his rivals’ corruption, and at last drowned himself in a river. By legend, an ensuing search for Qu by boat inspired the day’s races.
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Although dragon boat races are common to celebrate the summer solstice in China, each race has its own unique touch to it. What celebration intrigued you the most?
National Geographic if we compare the big Chinese festivals with the big Western festivals, we found that the western festivals are more religion-related and exclusive, Chinese festivals are more worldly, earthly and related to nature, sun, moon, seasons, they are more inclusive. Everyone in the world can participate and celebrate the Chinese festivals. The Chinese festivals tell us something about their culture, that is, they are more open and more international in their core.
National Geographic is so unprofessional calling Chinese calendar as lunar calendar.
National Geographic is the only media in US which is looking for the beauty of every country
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This is absolutely beautiful.. it even brought tears to my eyes. Everything about this is simply beautiful.
We're so happy to hear how much this resonated with you, Nate! It's always an amazing opportunity to learn about the different cultures that make up our world.
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China has so much culture and traditions, it’s amazing!😃
It's so fascinating to see all the unique aspects of Chinese culture. The variety of these dragon boat races alone is astounding!
Allyson Mora do you remember typing this just a reminder its been two years hope you are having fun
I love it!
I am ethnic Miao. Dragon boat rice has its own origin to the Miao people. Miao people being part of Chu state.... it is no surprise this is celebrated by Miao people as well.
The Chinese culture just looks amazing😍
Wow! These dragon boat races are sure something not to miss when visiting at gbe right time! Looks like a really fun festival and a great tradition that has been kept alive through centuries. Thanks for sharing National Geographic.
Azliana Lyana dragon boat races are at Canada to I see it sometimes I wish dog's would race boats 😃👍🚣🏖🐕🇨🇦😁🚼
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I was lucky enough to seen it live in Toronto in the mid 90s,and in Hong Kong in 2010. very cool festival many companies organized teams to compete during weekend long festival . I tried to join the dragon biat to practice when I was 22, our boat capsize 😁 lucky we all had life vest on!
the pyramid rice package wrapped with bamboo leaves is still the most environmentally friendly thing since ancient times
The Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat should not be translated as dragon boat. It should be called loongzhou, which is its real Chinese name.
This is the National Geographic we grew to love!
the small net hold a boiled egg for kids, i still remember how to weave that kind of net, every kid hang an egg on his neck when i was a kid in dragon boat festival.really sweet childhood.
你 好 ！ 中国... China is way beautiful.. ♥Love from India 🇮🇳 🇨🇳
we need more videos like this one, showing cultural festivals of different nations
Simply beautiful with ❤️ from India
So proud of our culture and our traditions.
Great legacy for China and other world wide countries.. Dragon boat are so interesting 😁😂
I been to dargun boat races at wallaceburg I think someday I will join a team I hope 🤔👍😁🚼🐦🇨🇦💪
The origin story kind of resembles that of marathons
They are tasked with remembering humanity's origins. People of the Dragon. Thank you for keeping the sacred fire alive into the present.
💖💖💖😍 Beautiful! 💖
SagittariusBoomBamPOW SheDidThat your name says it all lol.
Aurora Zuniga
I guess so huh? Lol! Have a great day💖
its more beautiful if you experience it ❤️
Love you China
I am chinese and my lunar birthday is 5/5😉
They do something very similar in Kerala, India called Snake🐍 boat race festival. Wondering if there was some ancient trade influences between these two. Someone should do a case study and publish it
How intrested Of their Celebreties and Tradition It makes me Learn more of These
Thank you very much for this beautiful video. I am going to show it to my students who are learning Chinese.
30 years later, south korean says Dragon boat belongs to korea, it is from korea, a korean culture, it has been a korean traditon for hundreds of years.
lmaooo. Don't they know Chinese culture predates Korean culture and existence by hundreds if not thousands of years. Furthermore, how much body of water does the Korean peninsula even have for this tradition to flourish over there? China has many bodies of water that's excellent for this. Is this claimed by South Korea or also North Korea?
I appreciate how they include women are never meant to be left out
This dragon boat race is so interesting
Zongzi looks kind of like the tamales they make in South America! Looks delicious 🤤
The Olympics should replace the rowing event with the Dragon Boat Racing....
No country is perfect, but China and Japan have beautiful history/traditions
Alo brigada X-B cei aicea
A culture w/ depth of identity; wonderful.
Growing up in Hong Kong , I always thought that i was 100% Han , pround to be the decedent of the Yellow Emperor . I am 72 years old now , and then my daughter did a DNA test and then finding out that i am 35 % Miao.
I want to see and experience this in real life. Very Rich Culture.
I can hear 4 pieces of music played, can someone please tell me the names to any of them? thanks
okay that is amizing
im inlove it
Rich, diverse, beautiful tradition.
How can I get my hands on a dragon boat?
Bless china
Thank you natgeo. Truly a gem in times like these
This is pretty cool ☺
In SE Asia, we have a dragon boat race too, but for differant reason. It's celebrated to end the monsoon season. "During the dry season, when the water is low, water from the Mekong river, the Tonle Sap river and lake flow south towards the sea. For that reason, the Water Festival is conducted to celebrate the flow of water reversing its course from the mainland back into the sea This annual festival happens on the full moon of the Buddhist month of Kadeuk, the full moon is considered to bring good luck that can lead to an abundant harvest. ".
Qu Yuan is a Chinese poet and politician in the Warring States period, Koreans always like to say Qu Yuan is Korean, even the name of your identity card to use Chinese characters, where thousands of years of culture, go to see your map is a small land even South Korea's local weather forecast are to use Jilin in northeast China, cultural relics are not out, thieves like to use the mouth
*looks sooo Cool!!*
now, maybe NG is the only American media doesnt use some kind of political language when reporting China.
Wow!!! Wouldn't it be a crazy spectacle..if the Kerala backwater Snake boat race the Guizhou dragon boat!!?
Yup, Duanwu commemorates Qu Yuan. It's not a legend but history
Amazing
More China!
I’m Chinese
Good to hear that. Love from India
Wow amazing about chinese culture,
Thank you national geographic
So cool, water parade😎.
What is the name of the first sound track that stops at 1:48. Beautiful! Thank you for this post.
Kerala, Gods own country, is famous for its stunning natural beauty and serenity of its natural backwaters and crisscrossing rivers. These rivers and backwaters of Kerala enrich the region's culture in many different ways. One of the ways in which it manifests is the Vallam Kali, the traditional boat races of Kerala. Boat races In Kerala are something unique, something incredible and something adventurous that speaks volume about the culture and heritage of this state. The boat races and these race boats have a lot of rich history and traditions which are unique in its own way.
@@shreekrishna3693 YES
The Dragon Boat Festival almost became a festival in Korea
Amazing it is so intresting
really cool!
I like it ❤❤❤
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还是南方人好啊，作为北方人没见过龙舟，而且看视频好多古城，羡慕！北方都是些高楼
各有特色，北方冬天有雪玩
We have this in Manipur India too
Hi bailey what a Coincidents
Good 😍😍😍😍😍
what's the soundtrack name? :)
Let me know if you find out. I was wondering that myself. The first sound track that stops at 1:48.
Awesome !
That's Chinese traditional flute music. @@sweettaterpie7009
This looks exactly like the boat races of Manipur.
Music: Run Free by tsfh. :D Good music and video.
Oh our north-east india also do dragon board competition in manipur
I wish i could go to CHina... I love this country aind its culture!
Nice.
I can't stop laughing for some reason, I read comments about the video and then I scroll to the bottom to see a person named dead kids saying "nice".
Please feature cow boat race too at river ganga and yamuna..
Lima Charlie I don't here of cow boat races I will try to find some after breakfast today 🤔🚣🇨🇦🐄😁👍
OK..
Hola
only the encalve ncr adn ceasr legion reamin after nculear war.
wow 3 to comment
Row weak
china should make this into worldwide program
every country join
Canoe sprints exists in olympics
社会主义核心价值观瞩目😂
卜正景 什么事情都往社会主义上靠
脑残也要多读点书。这是流传了上千年的节日活动，跟是那个朝廷什么价值没有半毛钱关系，这是民间的活动。
Yet another technology (like rice domestication) they stole from "Baiyue" when they assimilated the Austronesian and Austroasiatic tribes of southern China, but now claim as their own and use as justification for their claim to the South China Sea. The real dragon boats are the war canoes of the Austronesians, and they are thousands of years older than the Qin dynasty. Even the dragon boats of the Ryukyuans are not borrowed from China as they claim, but acquired from contact and intermarriage with their Austronesian neighbors in Taiwan. The Han Chinese were neither a river nor a sea people. They were steppe nomads.
Angry Kittens actually I disagree, dragon boat originated from the hunan region where miao people live. Rice domestication was proposed to be originated from the Miao people.... hint: the script for Miao is a crop field with grass character.
The _Chinese_ character for Miao is irrelevant. It's Chinese.
The Pearl River region, the most probable origin of rice cultivation 13,000 years ago was part of the core territory of the Austric "super"-ethnic group - which later split to numerous groups - the seafaring Austronesians, and the river/mountain Tai-Kadai, Mon-Khmer, and Hmong-Mien and possibly (more distantly) the Ainu and Ryukyuans (and thus, the Japanese). The Miao were one of those branches, and they didn't exist 13,000 years ago.
Their Urheimat (homelands) are basically the same place, and their historical territories still overlap even to this day. Moreover, the cultural parallels between all of them is extraordinary. From tattooing, to headhunting, to the blackening of teeth, the domestication of the water buffalo (a draught animal), the banana, the chicken, the pig, jade carving, traditional dress, cordware, social structures (the nobility, warrior, and the commoner class; as well as the relative egalitarianism between sexes), pre-contact religions (dual/multiple souls, soul loss, female shamans, and a version of spirit-centered shamanism very different from Han Chinese shamanism), and yes, rice cultivation, which remained a central part of the cultures of ALL of them.
None of these things are Han. Han are Sino-Tibetan. They domesticated the yak, the millet, the barley, the horse, and the soybean. All of which are highland/steppe technologies. A very far cry from the marsh/lowland/coastal technologies like rice farming and dragon boats.
What I find objectionable is the way China labels everything as Han Chinese, despite the fact that the entirety of southern China, coastal China, and Taiwan, were not Han territories.
Angry Kittens
1) Han culture is a river civilization first centered around the Yellow river, and since has expanded across all of China.
2) Qu Yuan is a CHu state minister. Chu state is in every way a Chinese state under the same culture, other ethnic minorities were absorbed into the Han ethnicity as with many other minor ethnicity, in both northern southern and western China, it is this melting pot of people and Culture is what we call Han Chinese today. it's an almost pan Asiatic race, but with the same language and customs.
So to use the narrow definition of Han Chinese of 2000 BC(ie people from the Yellow river) to use it and claim that what Han Chinese has today (after assimilation) accounts to theft is completely mor0nic.
3) I'm also pretty sure emptying out a log and turning it into a floating device were developed independently everywhere that has water. so the claim one culture invented something that has no technological input is again utterly m0ronic.
@obsidianstatue It is theft. The Yue were not Han. In the same way that Taiwanese aborigines are not Han. They did not have Han customs or culture. Tell me which culture colonized the islands of two oceans from Rapa Nui to Madagascar, and then tell me again who invented the more sophisticated boats. Log boats are easy. But a dragon boat isn't a simple log boat, is it? Designing boats, especially ocean-worthy boats, was something only achieved by a few cultures.
China wasn't one of them until much much later when they assimilated the non-Han sea people in southern China, erased their cultures, then claimed their advancements as their own. It's insulting because it makes it look like only China made technological discoveries. Especially since the Chinese call everyone non-Han as "barbarians".
To call Han chinese "pan-Asian" only makes it clear how utterly ignorant you are of non-Han Asian peoples.
Han were made up of many different groups. Do you have any clue about that??? In any event - you confuse them with Jurchen and Mongols. You obviously have a hatred of Chinese for whatever reason but at least get facts straight.
was searching for some class materials for my student didn't expect seeing my hometown in the video lol Well done NG👍
I am chinese and my lunar birthday is 5/5😉
Amazing