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Functions and Advantages of Dragon Boat Race
1, Dragon Boat Festival is the most sunny time in a year, and the weather is rather dull. If the work pressure is high, the human body's physiological qi and blood are not running smoothly, and it is easy to be agitated and depressed, palpitations and chest tightness. Emotional changes will affect the function of zang-fu organs, and also lead to mental diseases, such as happiness and sadness, anger hurting the liver, sadness and spleen.

2, summer health, should make the spleen, stomach, heart and lungs unobstructed. Therefore, besides medicine, diet and peace of mind, we should also strengthen exercise at the same time. Dragon boat rowing can make the whole body blood flow smoothly, enhance the heart and lung function, regulate the metabolism of the spleen and stomach, regulate the blood circulation, and the melancholy mood will also melt.

In daily life, the upper limbs stretch forward and push forward more, so most people have relatively developed muscles in the front of their bodies and weak backs, resulting in hunchback and shoulder and neck pain. Dragon boat boating can exercise the muscle strength of the upper back and neck, shoulder and back, relieve neck and shoulder pain and correct hunchback.

4, office workers can not sit for a long time, easy to low back pain and abdominal muscle relaxation. Rowing requires abdominal contraction, pelvic tilt, lower back extension and so on. , can exercise the core strength of the trunk and relieve low back pain.

5. Compared with pedal boating, manual boating directly stimulates respiratory muscle groups because it increases the trunk, and participates in more large muscle groups, so cardiopulmonary stimulation exercise is better.

6. The range of manual rowing is larger, the hull is relatively more unstable, and the stimulation to the body balance and stability system is more obvious, which is helpful to strengthen the balance ability of the human body.

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1, dragon boat racing is a custom that existed during the Warring States Period. During the Warring States period, people carved dragon-shaped canoes with drums and held competitions to entertain gods and people. At this time, the dragon boat race is a semi-religious and semi-entertainment program in the ceremony. Sacrifice to Qu Yuan is closely related to dragon boat race in Hunan and Hubei areas. Perhaps after the deaths of Qu Yuan, Cao E and Wu Zixu, local people also used soul boats to send their souls for burial, so there is this custom. But besides commemorating Qu Yuan, the dragon boat race has been given different meanings in various places.

2. Before the dragon boat race, please invite the dragon to offer sacrifices to the gods. For example, before the Dragon Boat Festival in Guangdong, you should go out of the water, worship the Nanhai God in the Nanhai Temple, install the dragon head and tail, and then prepare for the race. And buy a pair of paper cocks and put them on the dragon boat, thinking that they can keep the boat safe. Fujian and Taiwan went to Mazu Tempel to worship. Some directly kill chickens in dragon festival by the river, and the dragon first drops blood, such as Sichuan, Guizhou and other individual areas.

3. Before the dragon boat race, various sacrificial ceremonies and commemorative ceremonies will be held. Generally speaking, we light incense sticks, burn paper money, eat chicken, rice, meat, fruit offerings and zongzi. Nowadays, these superstitious ceremonies are rare, but in the past, when people went to the Dragon Palace to offer sacrifices, the atmosphere was very serious, praying for a bumper harvest in agriculture, good weather, evil spirits and all the best, and wishing boating safety. In people's words, "to be auspicious" expresses people's inner good wishes.

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