Research On The Custom Of The Dragon Boat Race In Ningbo Yunlong Town

The dragon boat race has a good development and inheritance because of the important relationship with the specific context in Yunlong town. Through inquiring the history of the local dragon boat race and researching the content of retention, variation and disappearance in the process of inheritance. Then finding the variation in the development of dragon boat race and exploring the influence from the contextual factors that are changing. With the change of the context and people’s attitudes, the team of the Women’s dragon boat is established. It shows that the dragon boat race has a more comprehensive development. It has a close relationship with national support for the traditional sports and the conservation movement of the intangible cultural heritage in recent years to the variation occurred during the inheritance. The protection of the intangible cultural heritage to the dragon boat race provides a very good platform to the inheritance and development, which is not only to improve the involvement and attention of the masses, but also makes the dragon boat race with the support and guidance policies. The protection polices from the government and the cultural of special inheritors, making the dragon boat race is no longer a custom that just entertains people and has a natural development. Today, we must consider about the new issues because of these cultural patterns are in the larger context of urbanization. For example, the heritage and development of dragon boat race is in a harmonious atmosphere, the new collective memory and the group identity is strengthening in people’s lives, and the cultural self-confidence is established and so on. The farming culture is disappearing, but the carrier and the foundation which the dragon boat race is based on are not lost. Therefore, it needs more exploration and efforts between government and civil to make the dragon boat race goes further and more dynamic in the context of urbanization.This paper is divided into six parts to discuss the issues. The first part explains significance of the topic, research status and research methods. The second part introduces the copper ax that is named "Flying race" ornamentation unearthed in Yunlong town which was made in the Warring States period. Then the paper is talking about the relationship between the "Flying race" ornamentation and dragon boat race. It shows that dragon boat race in Yunlong has a long history. The third part is about carding the local history and literature from the Song Dynasty to find the clue of the dragon boat race in Ningbo, and paying attention to the customs of dragon boat race in Yunlong town. Then, we can find the unique customs that they always held the races in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and combined the dragon boat race with the temple fair. It is a daily activity that the local people like best. The fourth part is about the pattern of tiger and dragon, dragon boat stunts, dragon boat minor and the "love boat" legend and the team of the Women’ dragon boat, which four parts are still existing in Yunlong town. After the reform and opening, there are some variations during the development and heritage of the dragon boat race. The paper analyzes the reasons from the changes in the social structure, the conversion of the values in the process of heritage and promotion of the intangible cultural heritage protection. The fifth part is about that the copper ax is not just a heritage, and become a kind of propaganda that represents the spirit of traditional sports for the dragon boat race. It is echoing the second part of the article. How to form a new collective memory and group identity to enhance cultural self-confidence, is also very important between the guidance of government and the activities of the people during the process of the heritage protection. Of course, there is also some frustration which must be accepted. The sixth part is a summary of the article.Through exploring the history of the dragon boat race customs, the variation in the context of urbanization and the protection and inheritance of the dragon boat race with the government and civil to protect the traditional athletic cultural in Ningbo. It is a good way to provide the paradigm. It also provides a case studies paradigm to protect the traditional culture during the development of the urbanization.