The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

The main customs of Dragon Boat Festival are dragon boat racing, eating zongzi, wearing sachets, tying colored ropes and sticking moxa sticks, among which dragon boat racing and eating zongzi are the most important and symbolic customs.

Among many customs, dragon boat racing and eating zongzi are the most important and symbolic. The origin of eating zongzi and dragon boat racing is related to Qu Yuan. After Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, people rowed behind him, trying to salvage Qu Yuan's body, but without success. Therefore, in order to prevent fish and shrimp from hurting Qu Yuan's health, people put glutinous rice into the river with bamboo tubes, and then slowly developed, which became two customs: eating zongzi and racing dragon boats.

1, Dragon Boat Race:

Dragon boat race is one of the most important folk activities in the Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Race is a multi-person collective rowing competition. After it was spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people all over the world and formed an international competition.

2. Eat zongzi:

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is the most classic custom. Zongzi is a kind of food steamed with glutinous rice wrapped in Zongzi leaves. Its main shapes are: pointed triangle and quadrilateral.

3, wearing a sachet:

During the Dragon Boat Festival, children should wear sachets, which have the function of repelling mosquitoes and avoiding epidemics, and are also good decorations. The sachet is filled with cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, and is sewn with silk and other articles. It looks lovely.

4, colorful rope:

Dragon Boat Festival is a colorful rope with a beautiful meaning of praying for Najib. Multicolored rope, also known as multicolored silk and multicolored silk, originated from the concept of five elements in ancient China.

5. Insert the moxa stick:

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.