The fisherman felt sorry for it, touched its scales and put it back in the ditch. Who knows that the nine scales suddenly fell, and the little snake danced and turned into a little dragon.
It turned out to be a dragon in the sky. Because I broke the dogma and was punished by the jade emperor, I became like this. It has nine strands on its tail, which are the nine shiny scales on the small snake's tail.
The Jade Emperor once said, "This lock can't be opened unless it is positive." Just now, the fisherman inadvertently opened the Millennium shackles on Xiaolong. In order to thank the fisherman, Xiaolong kept turning around in the ditch, spouting water from his mouth and pouring it into the small ditch. Slowly, this small ditch became a big river, which became the Qingshui River in Zou Wei, and this river brought a bumper harvest to Zou Wei.
To commemorate this dragon, people named the villages along the river as Longtouzhai and Shanglongshou. On the day when the dragon ascended to heaven, that is, the Dragon Boat Festival, a dragon boat race was held to celebrate.
As a culture, there are also legends that evolved from the religious sacrificial activities of dragon totem worship. Later, it was used to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan and other sages, which played a role in inheriting the ancient culture of China and condensing the national spirit.
In ancient times, there were many tribes, large and small, in southern China. Most of them have some common cultural characteristics, that is, they worship dragon totem, so they are collectively called Wuyue people. Wuyue people are good at canoeing. They use dragons as totems. Totem sacrifice is the earliest cultural relic of dragon boat race.
As early as more than 7000 years ago, ancient ancestors had carved wooden boats out of single wood and rowed them with wooden paddles. China's earlier literary masterpiece "Huainan Ziqi Su Xun" records:
Hu people are convenient for horses, and the more people are convenient for boats.
The earliest dragon boat records in China can be found in Mu Chuan, which records the deeds of the pre-Qin period:
The son of heaven took a bird boat and a dragon boat and floated in the swamp.
A long time ago, people in the southern water network area often used boats as tools for production and transportation. People compare the harvest of aquatic products in the labor of catching fish and shrimp. People meet to paddle faster in their leisure time, which is the embryonic form of ancient people.
According to myths and legends, the ancient Wuyue people were a nation with dragons as its totem. China's ancient book Shuo Yuan Shi Feng said that wuyue people have the custom of "tattooing constantly" and "being like a dragon", and the cultural connotation of this custom comes from the worship of dragon totem.
Later, Wu Yue people showed that they were descendants of the "dragon" and respected their ancestors.