The Na'vi appears on Stanley Dragon Boat Racing today!

The Na'vi (Extra-terrestrial in Hollywood movie “Avatar”) appears on Stanley Beach today!  Don’t worry, they are a group of Dragon Boat racing player and disguise as the Na’vi.

Dragon Boat Festival is well-known traditions of the festival.  It is also one of most important Chinese Cultural Heritage.  On 5th day of 5th month of Chinese Lunar Calendar, Dragon Boat Festival is observed by Chinese people.  As usual, dragon boat racing is held at Stanley Beach today.  There are full of carnival atmosphere.

In the tradition, dragon boat racing is participated by local fishermen.  Later, about 1970s, many and many foreigners began to take part in the race.  Some large-scale corporate teams compete each other.  It can build the team spirit, enhance the morale and reinforce the organizational unity.  Nowadays, dragon boat racing at Stanley is developed as the international tour events in Hong Kong.

Dragon Boat racing is becoming more and more welcome by the foreigners.  However, I am very inquisitive whether they like to eat the rice dumplings.  This is called as Zong Zi (粽子) which is a popular food in Dragon Boat Festival.  In the legend, Qu Yuan (屈原) who was the great patriot poet near three thousand years ago killed himself into the Miluo River (汨羅江).  In order to prevent the fishes to snap his body, the people wrapped the rice, yolk of egg, meat and other foods in bamboo leaves and throw it into the river to feed the fishes.  Although the body of Qu Yuan failed to be found, Zong Zi is widely spread to now and its shape is becoming triangular and pyramidal.

Today, over 200 teams fling themselves into the Dragon Boat racing.  On the beach, there are overcrowded and packed with team members, visitors, tourists and swimmers.  Many young girls dress the sexy swimming wear for attracting many photographers' shooting.  I use the technique of photo-collage to display the circumstance of the Dragon Boat racing as below:

Let me tell you what the photo-collage is.  It is the process of making a composite photograph by joining a number of photos.  Mr. David Hockney is an excellence artist of photo-collage and he is also an important contributor to the Pop Art.