If you are in our local neighbourhood, you can catch dragon boat racing in the Floating Harbour, Bristol on Sunday 14th September. The first race in this annual festival starts at 10.30am and the last race is on at about 5pm.
More details from the event organiser’s website here. And here are some photographs from the Banister family collection of racing in Mao Zedong’s hometown of Xiangtan, Hunan province, in the early twentieth century.
Dragon Boat Festival, Siangtan (Xiangtan), c.1900-1930.
Banister collection Ba04-62
Watching the Dragon Boats, Siangtan (Xiangtan), c.1900-1930.
Banister collection Ba04-23
Dragon Boat Festival, Siangtan (Xiangtan), c.1900-1930.
Banister collection Ba04-58