Which nationality is the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival of the Chinese nation. Besides the Han nationality, 28 ethnic minorities including Manchu, Mongolian, Tibetan, Miao, Yi, She, Xibo, Tujia and Daur also celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Chongwu Festival and Tianzhong Festival, can be traced back more than 2,000 years ago. Although Han people have different "regional versions" of offering sacrifices to Qu Yuan, Wu Zixu, Gou Jian or Cao E, the Dragon Boat Festival is actually a national activity, which is to drive away plagues and poisons, prevent diseases and get rid of diseases before the arrival of the intense summer heat.

3. The customs of the Han people to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival are quite rich, such as eating zongzi, dragon boat racing, inserting mugwort leaves, tying colored threads and so on. The Dragon Boat Festival customs of many ethnic minorities, combined with their own historical customs, are also very interesting.

4. On the Dragon Boat Festival, the Yi people in Xiaoliangshan, Sichuan entered the mountain to collect medicines to prevent and treat diseases. Mulao people should take paper boats to the fields to drive away pests and pray for the growth of seedlings during the Dragon Boat Festival. In addition to the dragon boat race, Miao people in Guizhou also hold activities such as stepping on inspiration, singing, mountain riding and traveling. Tibetan people celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, and young men and women go to the countryside for entertainment, horse racing, singing and dancing, games and other activities.

5, a small zongzi, all ethnic groups have their own way of eating. Han people first cooked rice in bamboo tubes to make zongzi. Later, glutinous rice was wrapped in neem leaves, fenugreek leaves, bamboo leaves and reed leaves into sharp corners and hearts, and then cooked and eaten.

6. She people call zongzi horns, wrap glutinous rice into four corners with Ruo leaves, and then bundle it into a string of ten with Chinese alpine rush. Cooking zongzi is usually done with alkaline water. The cooked zongzi is yellow and fragrant, and can be kept for half a month. Jiaozi of Yao nationality is usually made of glutinous rice, bacon strips and mung beans, which are shaped like pillows. Some people also add brown sugar and peanuts to glutinous rice to make vegetarian dumplings; The Dragon Boat Festival of Maonan nationality is also called "Medicine Festival". They use herbs such as Artemisia argyi, Acorus calamus and Dioscorea zingiberensis as stuffing.