Dragon Boat Festival is an important traditional festival in China. How do Miao people spend the Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival is an important traditional festival in China. How do Miao people spend the Dragon Boat Festival? Dragon Boat Festival is a festival for all ethnic groups, which is about the Spring and Autumn Period. Due to different national customs, Miao folk Dragon Boat Festival retains many unique styles.

There is no uniform date for the Miao Dragon Boat Festival. Most Yang Miao people celebrate this festival on May 4th. However, two days before the Dragon Boat Festival, other Miao families generally have two Dragon Boat Festivals: May 5th is called "Dragon Boat Festival" and15th is called "Great Dragon Boat Festival". The festive atmosphere of Dragon Boat Festival is stronger than that of Xiaolong Dragon Boat Festival. On this day, Miao people will have married daughters and son-in-law to go home for the New Year, so it is also called "Daughter's Day". On this day, housewives will hang calamus and mugwort leaves on both sides of the gate. They said, "On the afternoon of May 5, Shi Tian rode Ai Hu with a calamus sword in his hand, and the snake went to hell." According to the old Miao medicine, Acorus calamus can refresh and sterilize; Folium Artemisiae Argyi is an aromatic turbid medicine, except indoor poisonous gas.

Every family will kill chickens and ducks, steam rice noodles, drink realgar wine, sprinkle realgar wine around the house, and then sprinkle realgar wine on the boy's forehead, ears, hands and feet. It is said that it can cure diseases and prevent insects. Some farmers use garlic balls to hang a small piece of fat on the corner of the door, which is said to prevent mosquitoes and flies from entering. After covering the fat with garlic juice, it can be used to treat ulcers, nameless swelling and poisoning. Miao people wrap zongzi into various shapes, such as Daodao Zongzi, jiaozi, jiaozi, pillow Zongzi and so on. The core of zongzi is honey, peanuts, red beans, mung beans and other condiments, which are delicious. Some young people who are engaged soon must give gifts to their father-in-law's family on the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the "Gift Festival". Generally speaking, the "holiday gift" is not less than 80 refined zongzi, 8 pork and 8 sugar packets, each packet 1 chicken and 8 rice wine, to celebrate the holidays with the father-in-law's family.

On the Dragon Boat Festival, every household should clean the outdoor, and then go up the mountain to collect calamus, mugwort leaves, honeysuckle vine leaves, lamps, snakes and so on. But after nine kinds of more than ten kinds of herbs were fried into facial cleanser, the whole family took a bath with potions. It is said that washing your face with liquid medicine after bathing can drive away the poisonous gas of ruling (scorpions, centipedes, snakes, bees, ants) and evil spirits. Some herbalists took advantage of this opportunity to collect a large number of herbs for sale in the market, each ranging from 8 yuan to 10 yuan, and people rushed to buy them.