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About the Dragon Boat Festival.
1. The most distinctive features of the Dragon Boat Festival are zongzi, dragon boat and wormwood. The theme of painting the Dragon Boat Festival can be represented by zongzi and dragon boat.
2. Prepare yellow, green, red and brown pigments when drawing zongzi, let zongzi paddle on the dragon boat, and replace the dragon boat with zongzi leaves.
3. Prepare yellow, green, red and brown pigments when drawing zongzi, let zongzi paddle on the dragon boat, and replace the dragon boat with zongzi leaves.
Finally, paint the wood pulp brown and the sun bright red, and the painting with the theme of Dragon Boat Festival can be completed.
Folk customs of Dragon Boat Festival:
Dragon Boat Festival is a very popular folk festival in China. This is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. Due to the vast territory and numerous stories and legends, not only many different festival names have been produced, but also different customs have been observed in different places.
The Dragon Boat Festival in midsummer is an auspicious day for Feilong. Dragon Boat Festival in the form of dragon boat race is an important theme of Dragon Boat Festival, which is still popular in the southern coastal areas of China. In addition, a series of Dragon Boat Festival customs are derived from numbers of yin and yang and seasons. According to the number of yin and yang, noon is yang, and heavy noon is the most yang.
The ancients regarded three o'clock in the afternoon and three o'clock in the afternoon as the most important time to eliminate evil spirits. The ancients also regarded the Dragon Boat Festival as an auspicious year, which coincided with the summer solstice, and called it "Dragon Boat Festival", which is said to be "once in a blue moon". Summer is a season of struggle between yin and yang. Yang goes up and Yin is forced down. In the afternoon, the yang is healthy and the yin is afraid of evil.
Summer is also the season to drive away the plague. In midsummer, the Dragon Boat Festival is full of yang, and everything is thriving at this time. It is the strongest day of Chinese herbal medicine in a year. Herbs collected during the Dragon Boat Festival are the most effective in eliminating diseases and preventing diseases.
Due to the gathering of pure yang and healthy qi in the world at noon and the magical characteristics of herbs on this day, many Dragon Boat Festival customs handed down from ancient times have the contents of eliminating yin and evil, eliminating diseases and epidemic prevention, such as hanging wormwood, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boat water, tying five-color silk thread to ward off evil spirits, washing herbal water, smoking Atractylodes rhizome to eliminate diseases and epidemic prevention and so on.
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