Related knowledge of Dragon Boat Festival

The related knowledge of Dragon Boat Festival is as follows:

First, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Yulan Festival, is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. It started in China during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and has a history of more than 2,000 years. May is midsummer, and its first noon is a good day for climbing mountains and chasing the sun, so the fifth day of May is also called "Duanyang Festival".

Second, the custom of Dragon Boat Festival.

1, dragon boat race. Legend has it that after Qu Yuan's death, the people of Chu were deeply grieved and flocked to the Miluo River to remember him. Fishermen rowed boats and fished back and forth on the river, but there was no trace of them chasing Dongting Lake. This is also to disperse the fish in the river by rowing dragon boats and prevent the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body.

2. eat zongzi. Zongzi, also known as horn millet and tube zongzi, is a must-eat food during the Dragon Boat Festival. At the beginning of May every year, every household in China has to soak glutinous rice, wash the leaves of zongzi, and wrap zongzi with various colors and varieties.

3. Drink realgar wine. During and after the Dragon Boat Festival, the climate is hot, mosquitoes and flies fly, poisonous gas rises, and epidemics are easy to breed. The ancients found that drinking realgar wine can detoxify and clear heat, so drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival became popular.

4. Hang wormwood or calamus. There is a folk proverb that says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". People will use the special fragrance and function of wormwood or calamus to hang several plants at home to repel insects and mosquitoes.

5. Wear a sachet. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and other spices, wrapped in silk cloth, and then woven into various shapes with five-color silk thread to form a string, which is fragrant, delicate and lovely, can be decorated and repelled mosquitoes, and won the children's love.