Paintings depicting the Dragon Boat Festival
Updated: 2016-06-07 18:00
(Chinaculture.org)
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Scroll of Competing for the Championship of a Dragon Boat Race by an anonymous painter, the Yuan Dynasty |
Compete for the Championship of a Dragon Boat Race, drawn by Wu Tinghui in the Yuan Dynasty, is kept at the Taipei Palace Museum. It shows the race between three dragon boats. The major boat is beautifully decorated, and people on the other two boats are waving flags and banging their drums. In the Ming Dynasty, painters Zhang Hong and Zheng Zhong also drew pictures about dragon boat races. In the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Qianlong and Jiaqing often watched dragon boat races in Fuhai in the Old Summer Palace, which was recorded in Scroll of Competing for the Championship of a Dragon Boat Race.
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