What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival .. 55?

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival and Dragon Boat Festival, is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation with a history of more than 2,000 years. Dragon Boat Festival, Spring Festival, Tomb-Sweeping Day and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China. So how much do you know about the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, dragon boat boating

Dragon boat race is a multi-person collective rowing competition, an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, a ceremony of ancient dragon totem and a heritage. It is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is still very popular in the southern coastal areas of China. After it was spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people all over the world and formed an international competition.

2. Hanging wormwood and Acorus calamus during the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and Acorus calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, and Acorus calamus and Acorus calamus stick eyebrows in the hall. It is believed that wormwood also has the function of exorcising evil spirits and attracting happiness. During the Dragon Boat Festival, hanging wormwood on the door has become a habit and a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. There is a custom of hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival all over the north and south. In the south, heaven and earth are regarded as pure yang, healthy qi and auspicious days to drive away evil spirits and diseases, while in some places in the north, evil moons and evil days are regarded as evil spirits and drugs.

3, washing herbs and washing herbal water, one of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival is the day with the most Chinese herbal medicines in a year, and there are medicines everywhere at noon. Washing herbal water at noon can cure skin diseases and dispel evil spirits. During the Dragon Boat Festival, many places in China have the custom of collecting herbs, boiling herbs and soaking in water, and the medicinal properties of the Dragon Boat Festival herbs play a vital role in it.

The custom of painting children's foreheads with realgar on Dragon Boat Festival can drive away poisonous insects. The typical method is to draw the word "Wang" on the child's forehead with realgar. One is to use realgar to drive away the poison, and the other is to use the tiger's forehead (the "king" is like a tiger, and the tiger is the king of all animals, because it is replaced by a tiger) to suppress evil.

5. Wear sachets

Wearing sachets is one of the traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival. The sachet is usually filled with some Chinese herbal medicines with fragrance and resuscitation, which have the effects of fragrance, insect repellent, plague prevention and disease prevention. Duanyang tied his arm with four-color thread and wore a sachet, which was exquisite and exquisite. The sachet is also called sachet, sachet and purse, usually filled with spices and wrapped with five-color silk thread.

Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to mean to ward off evil spirits and plague. Sachet bags are made into different shapes and strung together, all kinds of small and lovely, and now they have become a common handicraft. In some cities in southern China, young men and women also use sachets to express their deep love.

The above is my understanding of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. What else do you know, my friend?