Luhu Water City Scenic Spot
Engineered lake community where an ancient dragon-blessing rite is raced anew each summer.
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This guide to Luhu Water City Scenic Spot in Chengdu opens with dragon boat races on a lake that didn't exist until engineers built it, filling an artificial basin and spending a decade coaxing it into a living ecosystem. It traces how that community race sits atop one of China's oldest rituals, from the tale of the poet Qu Yuan to Bronze Age dragon worship of water. Children race first, over a hundred meters, before the adult heats stream past the shoreline crowds.
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