History and Abstract

There was Dragon Boat that was the boat with the Dragon in the earliest of the Western Zhou Dynasty. About the origin of the dragon boat, the most widely circulated origin was to commemorate the Chu country patriotic poet Qu Yuan, and gradually spread to many countries and regions around the world. The period of spring and autumn, the Dragon Boat Festival has quite popular, which is the 5000 multicultural big fusion. Qu Yuan is the one of the four cultural famous people all over the world. Qu Yuan was vilified by conservative noble and sent into exile by king of Chu Huai because the political claims are the external against qin and internal of districting.

In 278 BC, Ying, the capital of Chu State, was broken by Qin State’s army. Qu Yuan, who was unable to save his country from urgent danger, jumped into Miluojiang River with sand-bag to sacrifice for his country on 5^th May in lunar calendar. People of Chu heard of it, and soon took boats to save Qu Yuan. Since then, dragon boat connects closely with Qu Yuan; and this sport is globally recognized that originated in Miluojiang River. Qu yuan’s spirit of "patriotic, worry people, those who have searched," is injected into the sport of dragon boat. "Descendants of the dragon", "Chinese descent", each new year into remembrance, from year to year the dragon boat, and formed a "unity, cooperation, hard work, enterprising" Chinese dragon boat sports spirit. In fact, the spirits of Dragon Boat have common values with Olympic spirit of teamwork, emotional connections among people from same nation, the sports passion, strong perseverance and the sense of keeping healthy. Nowadays, along with the immigration of Chinese, Dragon Boat is globally spread and welcomed.

Nowadays, sixty and more countries and regions hold dragon boat sports. The world important events through the international dragon boat organizations carry out are: the world dragon boat tournament, the world club championship dragon, intercontinental dragon boat races. In 1995, the first globally dragon boat tournament was held successfully by the international dragon boat federation in Yueyang city Hunan province of China. This is a history of game, also is significant signs of dragon boat sport moves towards the world, is to the Chinese excellent traditional sports vigorously carry forward. The world dragon boat tournament has held once every two years since 1995, this showed that the Chinese excellent traditional sports project - the dragon boat, has the formidable vitality, is also cause of out of the country, moves towards the world. The ancient Chinese Dragon Boat Festival has become a worldwide sport.

The 4^th East Asian Games has been held in Macao in 2005. Dragon boat is the first time listed as the sports project. The dragon boat sports of the 6^th East Asian Games will be held from October 6 to October 9 2013 at Tianjin One.

The Sports Courts and Equipment

The venue requires standing water, which is not less than 1000 meters long, not less than 13 meters wide and not less than 3.5 meters deep.

The Sports Rules

The first arrival is winner within the prescribed distance.