What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival?

1, eat zongzi: Zongzi is also a medicinal diet. Glutinous rice has the functions of invigorating qi and spleen, stimulating appetite and promoting digestion. The leaves used to wrap zongzi are more particular. Reed leaves are mostly used in the north, and bamboo leaves and lotus leaves are mostly used in the south.

2, hanging Acorus calamus: After the Dragon Boat Festival, the evil spirits are mainly damp and hot, so to be fragrant and turbid, the custom of the Dragon Boat Festival is always inseparable from incense.

3, wearing sachets: wearing sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival not only has the meaning of avoiding evil spirits and driving away epidemics, but also has the wind of embellishment. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, and the fragrance is overflowing, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk thread to make a string of different shapes, exquisite and eye-catching.

4, drink realgar wine: Realgar is a mineral, commonly known as "Jiguanshi", its main component is arsenic sulfide, and contains mercury, which is toxic. The common realgar wine is only made by adding a small amount of realgar to white wine or homemade yellow wine. Realgar wine has the functions of sterilization, insect repellent and detoxification.

5. Dragon Boat Race: Dragon Boat Race is one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in China, and it is also the most important festival activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, which widely exists in the south of China. The origin can be traced back to the Warring States period. According to historical records, the dragon boat race is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. It is not only a sport and entertainment activity, but also fully embodies the spirit of patriotism and collectivism.

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The story of the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival custom;

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were so sad that they flocked to the Miluo River to pay homage to Qu Yuan. The fisherman paddled the boat and fished for his real body back and forth on the river. A fisherman took out rice balls, eggs and other foods prepared for Qu Yuan and threw them into the river, saying that ichthyosaurs, shrimps and crabs were full and would not bite the doctor.

People followed suit. An old doctor took an altar of realgar wine and poured it into the river, saying that he would stun the dragon water beast with medicine so as not to hurt Dr. Qu. Later, people were afraid that rice balls would be eaten by dragons, so they came up with the idea of wrapping rice with neem leaves and then wrapping it with colored silk to make it develop into brown seeds.

Since then, on the fifth day of May every year, there has been the custom of dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine in memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Dragon Boat Festival Customs