What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Festival traditions

For every Chinese person, every traditional festival should be given high priority, especially the Dragon Boat Festival, no matter what kind of conditions they are under, or to celebrate in time. So for each person, their side of the Dragon Boat Festival when what kind of customs and cultural traditions exist?

What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival

1, Dragon Boat Race

Duanwu Festival Dragon Boat Race is a very important activity, it is the earliest when the ancient Yue people sacrificed to the god of water or the dragon god of a sacrificial activity, the origin of its likely to begin at the end of the primitive society. Has been passed down for more than two thousand years. History records that dragon boat racing is in honor of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan and the rise. From this, we can see that dragon boat racing is not only a kind of sports and recreational activities, but also reflects the spirit of patriotism and collectivism in people's hearts.

2, wear scented pouches

Duanwu Festival children wear scented pouches, the legend has the meaning of the evil spirits to drive away the plague, is actually used for lapel head embellishment decoration. The scented pouch inside the cinnabar, andrographis, incense medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, small and lovely. In some southern cities in China, young men and women also use scented bags to express strong love.

3, Hanging Ai

In the Dragon Boat Festival, people inserted Ai and calamus as one of the important content. Every family should clean the courtyard, with calamus, moxa inserted in the door eyebrow, hanging in the hall. And with calamus, moxa, pomegranate, garlic, dragon boat flower, made in the shape of a man or tiger, known as Ai man, Ai tiger; made of wreaths, ornaments, beautiful and fragrant, women compete to wear, used to drive away bad luck, bring good luck.

The meaning of the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of May is a very prevalent folk festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, is the traditional habits of the Chinese people since ancient times. In the traditional festivals, on the folklore of the many complex, or only the Dragon Boat Festival and the Spring Festival can be compared, the two sections have a blessing, disaster and other rituals and themes, to support the people to welcome the good luck and good luck, to ward off evil spirits, the good wishes of the elimination of disasters.

What are the traditions of the Dragon Boat Festival

The Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month to eat zongzi, which is another traditional custom of the Chinese people. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". Its long history, a variety of patterns. At the beginning of May every year, the Chinese people have to dip glutinous rice, wash zongzi leaves, package zongzi, its color varieties are more varied. From the filling point of view, the north more packages of small jujube Beijing jujube dumplings; the south has bean paste, fresh meat, ham, egg yolks and other fillings, which is represented by the Zhejiang Jiaxing zongzi. Eat zongzi custom, for thousands of years, in China prevailed, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia and some other countries, and by the countries of the favorite.