Why do you eat zongzi and bring colorful ropes during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Eating zongzi is to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan, and tying colorful ropes represents good wishes, health, auspiciousness and peace.

Multicolored rope originated from the concept of five elements in ancient China, and the five colors "green, red, white, black and yellow" symbolizing the five elements are regarded as auspicious colors. It evolved from the custom of ancient tattoos.

At noon, the pure yang of heaven and earth is full of righteousness, and it is an important custom of the Dragon Boat Festival to use the pure yang of heaven and earth to ward off evil spirits. Among many customs to ward off evil spirits, tying arms with five-color silk thread was once a very popular holiday custom. Spread to later generations, five-color silk has developed into a variety of exquisite ornaments, and its production has become increasingly exquisite, becoming a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Traditional folk customs:

Due to the vast territory and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names have been produced, but also different customs have been observed in different places.

The Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer is an auspicious day for Feilong. Dragon Boat Festival in the form of dragon boat race is an important theme of Dragon Boat Festival, which is still popular in the southern coastal areas of China. In addition, a series of Dragon Boat Festival customs are derived from numbers of yin and yang and seasons.

According to the number of yin and yang, noon is yang, and heavy noon is extremely yang. The ancients regarded noon on the end of the week and noon on the third day as the extreme days, which was the best way to eliminate yin evil. The ancients also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as an auspicious year, which coincided with the summer solstice, and called it "Dragon Boat Festival", which is said to be "once in a blue moon".