dragon boat
Just today started the Dragon Boat festival in HK,
a kind of canoes but with asian style…
“The use of dragon boats for racing and dragons are believed to have originated in southern central China more than 2,500 years ago, along the banks of such iconic rivers as the Chang Jiang a.k.a. Yangtze (i.e. during the same era when the games of ancient Greece were being established at Olympia). Dragon boat racing as the basis for annual water rituals and festival celebrations, and for the traditional veneration of the Asian dragon water deity, has been practiced continuously since this period.”
*I don’t know how were the dragonboat festivals a couple of thousand years ago, but nowadays they seem to be very fun!…
