Customs and Dietary Information of Dragon Boat Festival

1, Dragon Boat Race:

This is the main custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. It is said that the ancient Chu people were reluctant to part with their good minister Qu Yuan and threw themselves into the river. Many people rowed to catch up and save. They rushed to catch up with each other and disappeared at Dongting Lake. After that, on May 5th every year, a dragon boat was rowed as a memorial to disperse the fish in the river and prevent them from eating Qu Yuan's body.

2. Eat zongzi:

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is another traditional custom of China people. According to records, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, millet was wrapped in leaves into horns, which were called "horny millet". Rice packed in bamboo tubes is sealed and baked, which is called "tube zongzi". At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, millet soaked in plant ash water. Because the water contains alkali, the millet is wrapped in leaves into a quadrilateral, and when cooked, it becomes Guangdong sour rice dumplings.

3. Pei Xiangbao:

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.

Extended data:

The origin of Dragon Boat Festival:

1. The origin of Dragon Boat Festival is mainly related to solar terms and ancient production and life. Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, Duanyang Festival, Yulan Festival, etc. , is the most important festival in summer.

Dragon Boat Festival is also called Daughter's Day. The ancients believed that only from the beginning of Tai Chi, the Tao stood in one, creating a world and turning it into everything. Tai Chi gives birth to two devices, Yin and Yang. Yin and Yang are relative, just like men and women. Therefore, the ancients were bipolar in the design of many problems and in the design of festivals, so there were festivals for men and women in a year.

References:

People's Network-Our Festival -20 18 Dragon Boat Festival