What activities are there in Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival?

1, eat zongzi. Zongzi, commonly known as Zongzi, is mainly made of glutinous rice and stuffing, and is wrapped with Indocalamus leaves (or leaves, ancient cotyledons, etc.). ) and has various shapes such as sharp corners and quadrangles. Zongzi has a long history, originally as a tribute to ancestors and gods. North and South have different names. Millet is produced in the north, and glutinous rice is made into zongzi, which is angular. In ancient north, it was called "corn millet". Because of the different eating habits in different places, zongzi has formed a north-south flavor; In terms of taste, zongzi can be divided into salty zongzi and sweet zongzi. Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is an important custom in Suzhou. Every household uses green leaves or green reed leaves to wrap glutinous rice and various fillings into various shapes, which are roughly divided into three types: salty, sweet and white. There are jiaozi, Pillow Zongzi, Triangle Zongzi and Yuanbao Zongzi.

2. Suzhou Style-Huang Wu. Suzhou traditionally eats "Huang Wu" during the Dragon Boat Festival-Monopterus albus, yellow croaker, cucumber, salted egg yolk and realgar wine (realgar is poisonous, but now it is replaced with yellow wine). According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, the Dragon Boat Festival is on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which is the peak of yang in a year, and noon is also the peak of yang in a day. You can use the power of Dragon Boat Festival to curb bad luck and enhance your energy. Now, more and more people say that eating Huang Wu is for health.

3. Suzhou custom-dragon dance. Dragon Boat Festival is a festival founded by ancient ancestors to worship their ancestors and pray for evil spirits. The custom of dragon lantern dance is related to the abundant water in ancient wuyue. In ancient times, Wuyue people also had the custom of constantly tattooing "dragon-like". On the fifth day of May in ancient times, there was a folk custom of "colorful silk binding arms", which was probably the relic of the tattoo custom of "Like a dragon". Mr Wen Yiduo believes that the fifth day of May is the day when the "Dragon" tribe in ancient wuyue worshipped their ancestors in totem. Therefore, Suzhou Dragon Boat Festival has the custom of dancing dragon lanterns.

Suzhou custom-realgar wine is so magical. Speaking of it, the earliest use of realgar is the common medicinal material of Taoist alchemy. Ge Hong mentioned making wine with realgar in Bao Pu Zi, and there is a secret recipe of "refining realgar with immortal wine". Taking realgar as the main medicine and wine as the auxiliary material, he thinks that drinking this wine, "three worms in the belly die, and the heart is clear, which makes people powerful and makes dragons into the water." Enter the mountains to conquer the tiger and the wolf, and enter the army to conquer the five soldiers. Later, the admiration for realgar wine was formed among the people. In fact, realgar is a mineral, also known as Celosia cristata, which is warm in nature, bitter and pungent in taste and toxic, and is mainly used for detoxification and insecticide. Indeed, the ancients realized the detoxification and epidemic prevention function of realgar long ago. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that realgar is effective in treating scabies and snake bites.