Xinhua News Agency, Changsha, June 7 (Reporter Vivian Chang, Zhou Veng) on the 7th, the Chinese traditional Dragon Boat Festival was held. The 2019 Chinese traditional sports International Championship opened in Changsha, Hunan province. In addition to the players from the mainland and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, nearly 280 players from the United States, Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, Mongolia and other places were invited to participate in the competition.
The reporter learned that there are 4 projects of dragon dance, lion dance, drum art and dance KIRIN, including traditional dragon dance (Double Dragon and single dragon), traditional drum art, traditional lion dance competition (South lion “mining Green”), traditional KIRIN competition (single KIRIN, double Kirin), International Guan shenggong South lion competition (high pile, optional) 5 units, will be held in two days.
Li Ping, director of Changsha Sports Bureau, said that he hoped to show the rich forms and Connotations of Chinese traditional culture to the world through the holding of this competition. This competition platform will absorb more international, domestic traditional sports.
It is reported that this year’s competition is the first time that the folk-custom leisure professional committee of china branch of the world leisure organization takes chinese traditional culture as its foothold and presents chinese traditional culture and sports events in the form of international championships.