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Dance drama "Dragon Boat Racing," winner of the 15th Wenhua Grand Prize, runs at Shanghai International Dance Center this weekend.
Presented by the Guangdong Song and Dance Theater, the production highlights the folk elements and Lingnan culture of southern China. It's set in Shawan Town, Guangdong Province, in the 1930s. And Shawan is considered the home of Cantonese music.
Dance drama "Dragon Boat Racing," winner of the 15th Wenhua Grand Prize, runs at Shanghai International Dance Center this weekend.
Presented by the Guangdong Song and Dance Theater, the production highlights the folk elements and Lingnan culture of southern China. It's set in Shawan Town, Guangdong Province, in the 1930s. And Shawan is considered the home of Cantonese music.
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From Phnom Penh
According to the National Museum in Kuala Lumpur, Dragon Boat Racing has it's roots originating in Thailand.
In addition, many Tai speaking societies of Southwest China and Southern China also celebrate Dragon Boat Racing...some with even more gusto then what we in the West experience.
For the modern day Cantonese to still continue this ancient celebratory tradition, is just evidence that Tai culture still permeates through modern Cantonese Yue culture which we today associates as Han culture.
From Phnom Penh
