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Dragon boat racing brings fun, adrenaline to Boston

Participants battle it out on the river, while celebrating the festival's historical significance and traditions

By MINGMEI LI in Boston | China Daily Global | Updated: 2024-06-12 09:36
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A paddler raises his paddle in celebration after finishing a race on Sunday. LIU GANG/FOR CHINA DAILY

Social cohesion

Weeks said the shape and design of the dragon boats are part of Chinese culture and art. "The arts and culture always create the opportunity for us to come together successfully and in a spirit of celebration," he said.

"No matter what the politics of the day or the difficulties or challenges we might face as a country or an area, I think the arts always bring us together and create social cohesion. And the festival is one of the biggest and best ways to bring all of the different communities of Cambridge together to celebrate the Chinese culture and history."

Roger Jones also enjoys dragon boat racing and the spirit behind it. He is the author of The Final Victory, a novel on the thrills and challenges of dragon boat racing.

"In 2005, I was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, and a couple of years later, I started paddling with a dragon boat club in Charleston, South Carolina," Jones said. "In 2010, we decided that we wanted to put an all-cancer team together to see if we could compete at the national championship level."

He said he really did not think they had much of a chance to win, but they won the national championship.

"It was a great honor, and we earned the right to represent our division in Hong Kong the next year," he said, but the team was not able to go because some people were ill, and several died the next year.

"The book is a novel based on this team and what we did, what we accomplished, and just the inspiration that it brought to a lot of people, and the hope that it brought to people not quitting, giving up and moving forward and achieving something they didn't think they could ever achieve," he said.

"The thing with dragon boating is the support of a group. You're on the water, and (when) you are with other people who love you and support you, you just seem to do better."

Jones said he has also been involved with the dragon boat community and has learned more about Chinese culture.

"It's a wonderful, beautiful culture. I think the beauty of it is 20 people working in unison — that's the teamwork," he said.

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