Dragon Boat Festival customs 100 words

The Dragon Boat Festival has the following main customs:

1, eat zongzi. In ancient times for the sacrifice of the river Qu Yuan, Jing Chu people on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month will cook glutinous rice or steamed rice dumplings into the river, in order to prevent the fish ate the dumplings, people came up with dumplings wrapped in rice leaves, wrapped around the outside of the colorful silk. Later, eat zongzi became the Dragon Boat Festival custom.

2, hanging wormwood. Dragon Boat Festival day, people will hang in front of the courtyard and under the eaves of moxa or calamus, because both are herbs, mosquitoes are afraid of the flavor, can play the effect of mosquito repellent.

3, dragon boat racing. Legend has it that the people of Chu borrowed the dragon boat to disperse the fish in the river so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. Wang Zuoshi said, the ancients raced dragon boat at the end of the set up a fish mark, duck mark, iron mark, who got the 3 mark won the first runner-up and second runner-up. In order to allow participants to see the end from a distance, the ancients will also be in the 3 mark with a brocade bow.