In Huzhou, Zhejiang, a water town in the south of the Yangtze River, every household has a labor tool called a diamond bucket, which is used for fine water operations such as fishing and diamond picking. Because during the Dragon Boat Festival, it is a rare off-season, so over time, there is the custom of rowing a diamond bucket. Unlike the dragon boat race, the dragon boat race requires the concerted efforts of Qi Xin and Qi Xin. The rowing competition is a bucket for one person, so it's up to you how to row.
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According to research, the custom of "dragon boat race" existed long before Qu Yuan. Before the Spring and Autumn Period in ancient southern China, there was a custom of holding tribal totem sacrifice in the form of dragon boat race in the afternoon. Even in Qu Yuan's own poems, the custom of horse racing at that time can be reflected. For example, there is a saying in "Songs of the Chu River": "If you go to Yuan by boat, your country will be defeated. The ship is tolerant of not moving forward, and it is stagnation submerged by backwater. It's embarrassing in the morning and sunny at night. " Qu Yuan's long, narrow, light and small boat was essentially a boat used for the competition at that time. ?
According to textual research, many Dragon Boat Festival customs that have been passed down to this day have nothing to do with Qu Yuan. For example, the earliest written record about Zongzi comes from Xu Shen's Shuo Wen Jie Zi, and the custom of eating Zongzi predates Qu Yuan's death for more than 400 years. The early Zhou Dynasty in the Western Jin Dynasty was called "May 5th and summer solstice" in the records of local customs, which shows that the ancients also ate zongzi from summer solstice, which is not the patent of Dragon Boat Festival.
According to experts' archaeological research and more than 100 kinds of ancient books listed in Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival Examination and Dragon Boat Festival History Education", the origin of Dragon Boat Festival is a totem festival held by ancient Vietnamese in southern China, earlier than Qu Yuan. Wu Zixu, meson tui, Cao E, Chen Lin, Qu Yuan, etc. They are all considered by academic circles as words invented by later generations.