There were barges, showboats, cockleshells, pleasure-boats, small dragon boats and tiger head boats. Dragon Boat race in Jinming Pool exhibits the scene above, in which figures are small but clear.

Samples from paintings, dating from the 7th century AD, were taken from caves behind two statues of Buddha in Bamiyan blown up as un-Islamic by Afghanistan's hardline Taliban in 2001.

Paintings about the Dragon Boat Festival Updated: 2013-06-07 14:39 ... There were barges, showboats, cockleshells, pleasure-boats, small dragon boats and tiger head boats.