What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival?

On the fifth day of May, Dragon Boat Festival. This thousand-year-old folk festival has always been rich and romantic: eating zongzi, racing dragon boats, inserting Aipu, soaking orchid soup, offering sacrifices to Qu Yuan, wearing colored thread and drinking realgar wine ... Although the customs of Dragon Boat Festival vary from place to place, the lively situation is the same. No wonder some people say that the Dragon Boat Festival is really a festival full of ceremonies. Next, I will introduce some customs of the Dragon Boat Festival for interested friends to see.

1, Eating Zongzi Speaking of Dragon Boat Festival, everyone will definitely think of eating Zongzi. Zongzi, as the representative food of the Dragon Boat Festival, is said to be thrown into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from biting Qu Yuan's body. Second, because the edges and corners of zongzi are like a knife, it can eradicate diseases and disasters. After thousands of years of inheritance and development, zongzi are mostly wrapped in bamboo leaves and made of glutinous rice and yellow rice. Different regions have different practices, such as sweet zongzi with different tastes and meat zongzi with different materials. Eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival not only carries the feelings of home and country, but also contains the deep feelings of family and friends getting together. Zongzi is known as one of the traditional foods with the deepest historical and cultural accumulation in China.

2. Eating eggs and garlic It is a custom to eat garlic and boil eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival. Some places think that eating garlic and boiled eggs during the Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits. The celebration of Dragon Boat Festival is different in different areas. Henan, Zhejiang and other places will eat garlic and boiled eggs on the morning of Dragon Boat Festival. They think eating garlic and boiled eggs in the morning of Dragon Boat Festival can ward off evil spirits. There is a folk proverb: "If you don't eat garlic during the Dragon Boat Festival, ghosts will come to the door." Eating garlic on Dragon Boat Festival is said to avoid "five poisons", evil spirits and plague.

According to the old rules in Nanjing, at noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, every household should put the whole garlic in a pot and cook it for their children. A child eats one alone, because it is homophonic and poisonous. The child ate burnt garlic, so he didn't have diarrhea in summer and there were no bugs in his stomach. Every family must eat amaranth. It is said that abdominal pain can be avoided in summer. Every Dragon Boat Festival, housewives in rural areas of Henan, Zhejiang and other provinces get up early and make garlic and eggs for breakfast. In some places, put some mugwort leaves when cooking garlic and eggs. Eating garlic, eggs and fried buns for breakfast is said to avoid the "five poisons" and is good for health.

3, with sachets Dragon Boat Festival children wear sachets, which is said to have the meaning of avoiding evil and expelling plague. The sachet is usually filled with some fragrant Chinese herbal medicines, which have the functions of fragrance, insect repellent, plague prevention and disease prevention. Actually, it is used for interior decoration. 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. When I was a child, my mother would wear sachets for me on the Dragon Boat Festival. At that time, I cherished it and put it under my pillow when I slept every day.

4. In the traditional culture of China, the five colors "green, red, white, black and yellow" symbolizing the five elements are regarded as auspicious colors. On the Dragon Boat Festival, children should tie colorful silk threads on their wrists and ankles to protect their health.

Therefore, in the early morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, the first important thing for adults after getting up is to tie five-color lines on their wrists, ankles and necks. Children are not allowed to talk when tying the thread. The five-color line cannot be broken or discarded at will, and can only be thrown into the river during the first heavy rain in summer or the first bath. It is said that children wearing five-color thread can avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions; Throwing it into the river is to let the river wash away plagues and diseases and make children safe and healthy.

5, hanging wormwood calamus folk proverb says: "Insert willow in Qingming Festival, insert wormwood in Dragon Boat Festival." On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, puts calamus and moxa sticks between their eyebrows and hangs them in the class. Acorus calamus, Folium Artemisiae Argyi, Liu Hua, Garlic and Dragon Boat Flower are made into human or tiger shapes, which are called Ai Ren and Ai Hu. It is made into garlands and decorations, beautiful and fragrant, and women compete to wear it to ward off evil spirits.

Artemisia argyi, also known as Artemisia argyi and Artemisia argyi. Its stems and leaves contain volatile aromatic oils. Its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants and purify the air. Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, and its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, which is a good medicine for refreshing, strengthening bones, eliminating stagnation, killing insects and sterilizing. It can be seen that the ancients inserted wormwood leaves and calamus to have a certain disease prevention effect. Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" handed down from ancient times. On this day, people sweep the courtyard, hang mugwort leaves, hang calamus, sprinkle realgar wine, drink realgar wine, stir up turbidity, remove rot, sterilize and prevent diseases.

The above is my understanding of the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. What else do you know, my friend? Please leave a message in the comments section.