What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival?

What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival?

1, Dragon Boat Race

Dragon boat race is the main custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, people who originated in the ancient State of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of the sage Qu Yuan, and many people rowed boats to save people. They rushed to catch up with each other and disappeared at Dongting Lake. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of competition prevailed in wuyue and Chu.

In fact, the "Dragon Boat Race" existed as early as the Warring States Period. Carving dragon-shaped canoes in drums and playing race games are semi-religious and semi-entertaining programs to entertain gods and people in the ceremony. Later, people everywhere not only commemorated Qu Yuan, but also gave different meanings to dragon boat racing.

2. Wear sachets

Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to mean to ward off evil spirits and plague. Actually, it is used to decorate the inner head. 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, all kinds of exquisite and lovely.

3. Write a spell.

The ancients thought that May 5th was an evil month and day, so the Dragon Boat Festival had to hang an exorcism spell indoors. Moreover, there are some strict rituals for hanging exorcism symbols, such as writing at sunrise or noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, using raw Zhu as writing material, putting saltpeter in inkstone and writing population, and so on.

4. Eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in China, but there is a special custom of eating black rice zongzi in Aoshanggu Village, Suxian District, Chenzhou. Aoshang Wumi Zongzi is a kind of local original food with dietotherapy function. More than ten kinds of edible leaves, such as Vaccinium bracteatum leaves, Zizyphus jujuba leaves, tender head of King Kong thorn and tender leaves of Liquidambar formosana, are washed and mashed, filtered and pressed, then soaked in glutinous rice, and steamed with stuffing such as barbecued pork and salted egg yolk. It is fragrant but not greasy, and also has the functions of invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, expelling wind and removing dampness, and cooling and detoxifying.

Step 5 insert moxa sticks

As the saying goes, "willow inserted in Qingming Festival, wormwood inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". The "Artemisia argyi" here refers to Artemisia argyi, whose stems and leaves contain volatile essential oil, and its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes and insects. Dragon Boat Festival has also been a solar term for disease prevention since ancient times, because it coincides with the summer solstice and the intersection of cold and heat, and every household will clean the door, insert moxa sticks on the door and disinfect it.

6, tie five-color line

Red, yellow, white, cyan and black have always been auspicious colors in ancient China. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival every year, the first thing adults do after getting up is to tie five-color lines on their wrists, ankles and necks. Legend has it that the five-color line can't be discarded casually. It can only be thrown into the river during the first heavy rain or the first bath in summer, which means that the river will wash away the disease. It is said that children wearing five-color lines can avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions and be healthy forever.

What to eat on Dragon Boat Festival?

1, eat zongzi

Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the poet Qu Yuan's habit of eating zongzi. Now there are many kinds of zongzi with different tastes, including fresh meat zongzi, egg yolk zongzi, candied jujube zongzi, original zongzi and so on. At this time, control the intake of zongzi according to the actual situation, and don't hurt your health because you are greedy for delicious food. At the same time, remember to heat zongzi before eating, which is safe and hygienic, and also reduces the digestive burden.

Step 2 eat eggs

You must cook eggs in the pot where zongzi is cooked, and if possible, cook some duck eggs and goose eggs. After eating sweet zongzi dipped in sugar, eat eggs dipped in salt. It is said that eating boiled eggs in zongzi pot at the end of May will not cause sores in summer; At noon, put the duck eggs and goose eggs cooked in the zongzi pot in the sun for a while before eating, so that you won't have a headache all summer.

3. Picking tea and making herbal tea

In some areas in the north, people like to pick tender leaves and steam wild vegetable leaves to make tea during the Dragon Boat Festival. In Chaozhou, Guangdong, people go to the suburbs of Shan Ye to collect herbs and cook herbal tea. This is also good for health.

Step 4 eat oil cakes

In addition to eating zongzi, you should also eat oil cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Oil cakes should be made of scalded oil noodles, wrapped with stuffing made of white sugar, yellow cinnamon, roses, walnuts and lard, and fried in an oil pan. The epidermis is loose, the stuffing is sweet and the appearance is beautiful.

Step 5 drink five glasses of wine

It is a folk custom to pick five drinks and brew five drinks on the fifth day of May. Acanthopanax senticosus is Acanthopanax senticosus skin, which smells bitter. Acanthopanax senticosus skin has a strange fragrance, which can nourish liver and kidney and strengthen bones and muscles. People believe that drinking five glasses of wine can ward off evil spirits. Acanthopanax senticosus is mainly used to treat hernia, abdominal pain, male impotence, enuresis, female low back pain and pain in both feet. Located in a humid area, it is especially suitable for drinking Wu Jia wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.