What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival?

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival are:

1, Dragon Boat Race

Dragon boat race is the main custom of Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, people who originated in the ancient State of Chu were reluctant to part with the death of the sage Qu Yuan, and many people rowed boats to save people. They rushed to catch up with each other and disappeared at Dongting Lake. After that, I will row a dragon boat on May 5th every year to commemorate it. Rowing a dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so as not to eat Qu Yuan's body. The habit of competition prevailed in wuyue and Chu.

In fact, the "Dragon Boat Race" existed as early as the Warring States Period. Carving dragon-shaped canoes in drums and playing race games are semi-religious and semi-entertaining programs to entertain gods and people in the ceremony. Later, people everywhere not only commemorated Qu Yuan, but also gave different meanings to dragon boat racing.

2. Wear sachets

On the Dragon Boat Festival, children will wear sachets. There are cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine in the sachet, which are wrapped in silk cloth and full of fragrance, and then tied into a string with five-color silk thread, with different shapes and all kinds of exquisite and lovely.

3. tie a five-color line

Red, yellow, white, cyan and black have always been auspicious colors in ancient China. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival every year, the first thing adults do after getting up is to tie five-color lines on their wrists, ankles and necks. Legend has it that the five-color line can't be discarded casually. It can only be thrown into the river during the first heavy rain or the first bath in summer, which means that the river will wash away the disease. It is said that children wearing five-color lines can avoid the harm of snakes and scorpions and be healthy forever.

4. Eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in China, but there is a special custom of eating black rice zongzi in Aoshanggu Village, Suxian District, Chenzhou. Aoshang Wumi Zongzi is a kind of local original food with dietotherapy function. It is made of more than ten kinds of edible leaves, such as Vaccinium bracteatum leaves, Saizi Chai leaves, tender head of King Kong thorn, tender leaves of Liquidambar formosana, etc., which are washed and mashed, filtered and pressed.

Glutinous rice bubble, barbecued pork, salted egg yolk and other fillings. Steamed, fragrant and not greasy, it has the effects of invigorating stomach, promoting digestion, expelling wind and removing dampness, and cooling and detoxifying.

Step 5 insert moxa sticks

As the saying goes, "willow inserted in Qingming Festival, wormwood inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". The "Artemisia argyi" here refers to Artemisia argyi, whose stems and leaves contain volatile essential oil, and its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes and insects. Dragon Boat Festival has also been a solar term for disease prevention since ancient times, because it coincides with the summer solstice and the intersection of cold and heat, and every household will clean the door, insert moxa sticks on the door and disinfect it.