What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival?

Peixiangnang

Dragon Boat Racing

Hanging bell statue

Hanging wormwood

Five-color silk thread for hanging wallets and bolts

Point realgar wine

Festival introduction

Dragon Boat Festival is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month every year. Also known as "Noon Festival, May Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Bathing Orchid Festival" and so on. ? Dragon Boat Festival, which originated in China, is a traditional cultural festival popular in China and other countries in the cultural circle of Chinese characters. Qu Yuan, a poet of Chu State in the Warring States Period, committed suicide by jumping off the Miluo River with a huge stone on this day. The rulers took the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival to commemorate Qu Yuan, so as to establish a label of loyalty to the monarch and patriotism.

Traditional dietary customs

(1) Eating Zongzi: At present, glutinous rice is generally wrapped in glutinous rice shells, but the color contained in it depends on local specialties and customs. The famous ones are longan, salted egg, crystal, lotus seed, pickled cabbage, candied fruit, chestnut, meat, spicy food, ham and so on.

(2) Drink realgar wine: Realgar wine has the efficacy of sterilization, insect repellent and detoxification, and Chinese medicine is also used to treat skin diseases. When there was no disinfectant such as iodine in ancient times, soaking in realgar could detoxify and relieve itching.

(3) Eating "Huang Wu": The custom of eating "Huang Wu" in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces. Huang Wu refers to cucumber, yellow croaker, salted duck egg yolk, realgar wine, eel and so on.