Thousands of sails are competing, and dragons are competing. On October 2, the 2024 Foshan 1st F3 Dragon Boat Super League Finals sounded the war drums at Guipan Lake, Shunfeng Mountain Park, Shunde District, with 24 dragon boat teams competing for the crown, and 7 well-built colorful dragons with the theme of "Foshan Intelligent Manufacturing" and "Ten Traditional Cultures" and other city brands, attracting Olympic champions, people at home and abroad to gather on the shore to watch.
It is reported that the event contains three conceptual connotations: one is to symbolize the passion of the equation, the second is to echo with the homophony of Foshan, and the third is to represent the enterprising, tenacious and resolute humanistic spirit of Foshan. At the same time, the event pioneered a unique super league mechanism, determined to build the highest honor dragon boat super league in Foshan.
In addition, the event also created the theme song "Dragon Walking Map", which was first released on the whole network on the evening of September 30, which once again set off a wave of love for dragon boat racing in the local area.
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Up and down the field: full of passion
At about 10 o'clock in the morning of the same day, on the field, the referee fired a starting gun, and in an instant, the drums on the lake shook the sky, and the dragon boat flew out like an arrow from the string, and the "fast and furious" performed on the water instantly ignited the audience.
After fierce competition, the Jiujiang Shuangzheng men's dragon boat team won the "men's group 12-person dragon boat 200-meter straight race championship"; Shunde Le won the three championships of "Men's 12-person Dragon Boat 500-meter Straight Race", "22-person Dragon Boat 200-meter Straight Race" and "22-person Dragon Boat 500-meter Straight Race" from the Louvre Dragon Boat Team in one fell swoop; The Nanhai Jiujiang double-steamed dragon boat team won the "men's 22-person dragon boat 400-meter round-trip championship"; The women's dragon boat team won the "women's 12-person dragon boat 200-meter straight race"; Jiujiang Shuangxuan women's dragon boat team won the "12-person dragon boat 500-meter straight race championship".
Off the field, the blood was also boiling, and the cheering and shouting made the audience feel excited. In the early morning of the same day, Sister Min, a local student in Foshan, went to the scene with her relatives and friends to cheer for the participating team, and she excitedly said to a reporter from Nanfang.com: "I sat in the front row for the first time to watch the dragon boat race, and it was so shocking!" ”
The audience cheered one after another Photo by Lan Juan, a reporter from Southern Network and Guangdong Learning
Foreign friends and Olympic champions: want to participate in dragon boating
This super-burning dragon boat duel also made the foreign friends on the scene praise again and again, "wonderful! Amazing!" Dimitri Jevic Darko from Serbia, who has lived and worked in Shunde for many years, brought his wife and children to the finals to watch the tournament live. He said that dragon boat culture is one of his favorite traditional Chinese cultures, and he has watched dragon boat races many times before, and he loves this sport very much, and hopes to have the opportunity to experience dragon boat rowing in person.
Olympic champion Chen Qingchen went to the scene to cheer for the participating teams
At the same time, Olympic champion Chen Qingchen also came to the scene to cheer, and after experiencing the land dragon boat drums, she said: "I am interested in water dragon boats, and if there is a team that needs me, they can also come to me." ”
"Sports +" integration: creating a feast of cultural tourism consumption
During the National Day, Foshan made every effort to promote the in-depth integration of "sports +", and formed a linkage with the finals with the multiplier effect of the F3 Dragon Boat Super League. The dragon boat will be deeply integrated with food, intangible cultural heritage and urban life, and activities such as the "FUN Leshunfeng" market, dragon tide market, taste of Foshan, and dragon boat banquet will be launched to provide the masses with a "one-stop" cultural and tourism consumption feast of eating, watching, appreciating and playing.
There is a long queue in front of a stall in the "FUN Leshunfeng" market
Prospect of the event: to create a new brand of Foshan dragon boat culture
As the "hometown of Chinese dragon boat sports" and "the famous city of dragon boat and lion sports in China", Foshan has a profound traditional dragon boat culture and a broad foundation for dragon boat mass sports. According to the organizers of the event, the event aims to build a new cultural brand of Foshan dragon boat racing platform with national influence, so that Foshan dragon boat can become an important platform to show the achievements of Foshan's "Millions of Projects", the spirit of industrial innovation in the new era, and the upgrading of cultural consumption.
Southern Net, Guangdong Learning Reporter Lan Juan
(Some videos are from the organizers of the event)