The only competition in the country that does not allow men to participate is here! The 2024 China (Guangyuan) Daughter Festival International Phoenix Boat Race will be held on August 31
2024-08-21
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Sichuan News Network-First Screen News Reporter Zhang Yu
On August 20, the reporter learned from the Guangyuan Municipal Sports Bureau that the 2024 China (Guangyuan) Daughter Festival International Phoenix Boat Race will be held from August 31 to September 1. In the impression of most people, from the Dragon Boat Festival to the end of the year every year, dragon boat racing is staged on rivers and streams across the country, and the only place where Phoenix Boat Racing requires contestants to be daughters (female contestants) is Guangyuan, Sichuan.
The origin of the Phoenix Boat Race
This is a festival born of Empress Wu Zetian. Guangyuan is the birthplace of Wu Zetian, the only female emperor and outstanding female politician in Chinese history. The "Guangyuan Daughter's Day" that has evolved from this is a unique and beautiful scenery in Guangyuan. Since the middle and late Tang Dynasty, the folk custom of "On the 23rd day of the first lunar month, women swim in the river bay" has been passed down for thousands of years. Since 1988, the Guangyuan Municipal People's Government has designated September 1st of each year as the "Daughter's Day".
From "Women's Tour of the River Bay" to "Daughters' Phoenix Boat Race", from singing in colorful boats to water art performances, from traditional folk activities to cooperation with economic and trade exhibitions and cultural exchange activities, with the continuous enrichment of the Guangyuan Daughters' Festival and the in-depth interpretation of cultural connotations, the Phoenix Boat Race has been given more contemporary significance and has become a sports and cultural exchange activity with a certain international influence. As the only Phoenix Boat Race with female characteristics in the country, the State Sports General Administration awarded the Guangyuan Daughters' Festival Phoenix Boat Race the "China Sports Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection and Promotion Project" in 2013.
The competition is becoming more international
In 1999, with the approval of the State Sports General Administration, Guangyuan held the first national Phoenix Boat Invitational Competition, and teams from Hong Kong, Macao, Guangdong and other places participated in the competition. The holding of the first national Phoenix Boat Invitational Competition marked that the Guangyuan Phoenix Boat event was promoted from one region to the whole country, becoming a female water sport event on a larger scale. In 2005, female college students from the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries who studied in Chengdu were invited to form a foreign friend team to compete. Guangyuan Girls' Festival and its characteristic event - Women's Phoenix Boat Race have since spread across the country and the world!
The 2024 China (Guangyuan) Daughter Festival International Phoenix Boat Race, which will be held from August 31 to September 1, has a more obvious international feature: 3 high-level international Phoenix boat teams from Pakistan, Belarus and other countries; women's Phoenix boat teams from Hong Kong, China, Macao and 6 provinces in China are ready to go; and the mass teams composed of local districts and counties and related enterprises and institutions are ready to go. When the drums of war sound, they will be unstoppable.
Online and offline carnivals
The daughters of the Jialing River cut through the waves, and the whole nation is competing and interacting on the Internet. In order to support the 2024 China (Guangyuan) Daughter's Day International Phoenix Boat Race and drive the whole nation to share the joyful carnival, this year's "Phoenix Dances in the Nine Heavens and Boats Connect the Four Seas" electronic Phoenix Boat Challenge will be launched for the first time. The electronic Phoenix Boat Challenge will be "launched" on August 28 to warm up the Daughter's Day Phoenix Boat Race in advance. The electronic Phoenix Boat Challenge integrates the Phoenix Boat "track" with Guangyuan's characteristic attractions, historical culture and other elements, and completes the race by avoiding obstacles and crossing scenic spots. The electronic Phoenix Boat Challenge runs throughout the year, with three types of rewards: weekly competitions, monthly competitions, and annual competitions. The highest annual competition reward amount is a cash prize of 10,000 yuan and scenic spot tickets. At the same time, the "Best Popular Phoenix Boat Team" selection event will be held during this year's Daughter's Day Phoenix Boat Race. Participants enter the "Pull-up Assistant" applet to vote for their favorite "local Phoenix Boat team". Participating in the vote has the opportunity to share Guangyuan scenic spot tickets worth 10,000 yuan.
"Travel with the event" and "Come to Guangyuan, Shudao, to crown beauty". The 2024 China (Guangyuan) Girls' Festival International Phoenix Boat Race is here!
