The water sport of dragon boat racing is a tradition based in ancient Chinese culture, commemorating the life of beloved poet and patriot Qu Yuan, who died by suicide in the Miluo River in 278 BCE.<\/p>\n
It evolved into a modern international sport in the 1970s, after Hon Kong hosted the first commercial race, followed by the creation of the International Dragon Boat Federation in the 1990s.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In Southern California, Long Beach’s annual Dragon Boat Festival has grown into one of the largest competitions in the state, drawing in competitors from across the West Coast.<\/p>\n
See how it’s combining athleticism and tradition.<\/p>\n
Click the arrow above to watch the segment.<\/p>\n
Watch \u201cThe SoCal Scene\u201d at 8:30 p.m. every Wednesday on Spectrum News 1 and the Spectrum News app.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The water sport of dragon boat racing is a tradition based in ancient Chinese culture, commemorating the life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[128497,7,131,133,132,128498,128496,5996],"class_list":["post-433388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-app-the-socal-scene","tag-california","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-news","tag-socal-scene","tag-the-socal-scene-staff","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}