Customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Yueqing

Customs are:

The package of dumplings

Duanwu Festival package of dumplings, which is the traditional custom of the Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi, also known as "corn", "tube dumplings". It has a long history, and there are many different patterns. The morning of the Dragon Boat Festival, families eat zongzi to commemorate Qu Yuan. Generally the day before the dumplings wrapped, cooked at night, eaten in the morning.

Looking at the Dragon Boat Festival

A few days before the Dragon Boat Festival, aunt and uncle, parents-in-law, godparents are to give food gifts, commonly known as sending the Dragon Boat Festival or looking at the Dragon Boat Festival. Gifts to dumplings as the main, supplemented by fish, meat, etc. to make up four kinds, commonly known as light bon. Newlywed son-in-laws looking at the first heavy noon festival to have six samples, commonly known as heavy pellet. Regardless of whether it is four or six samples, there must be a considerable number of gifts for the return of the pellet. Usually the light pellet back pellet with salted duck eggs, fried Chinese beans, loquat, fan and Longshu shoes, etc., heavy pellet with silk or grass clothing, parasols, leather slippers, etc..

Suspended calamus and mugwort

Heavy noon this day, early in the morning to pick calamus, large thatched grass, clouds, maple tops, groundnut vine, tung leaves, etc., that is, commonly known as the "May picking head," but the plants picked by the region varies. People also put calamus and mugwort inserted in the door, commonly known as "Pu Jian Ai Hu". Dajing all over the world and hanging Zhong Kui statue, hanging ai leaf flag, the custom of inserting calamus sword.

Huanghuang wine

Morning the "May Cai head" into the dumplings in the ash soup boiled dumplings, chicken and duck eggs. After cooking the soup, we share a few mouthfuls, the rest for the children to take a bath. At the same time also drink Xionghuang wine, and use it to apply the child's top of the head, ears, armpits, navel and other places. Androgynous wine was also used to repel and kill insects, snakes and scorpions, i.e., by putting it in the mouth, spraying the wine to the foot of the wall and all shady and wet corners, and then sprinkling it with lime.

Hanging scented pouches

Women use small pieces of cloth in various colors to form a bag shaped like gossip, dumplings, wooden fish, tigers and other shapes, filled with cotton wool and fragrant crabapple, commonly known as scented pouches, hanging on the bed net, or hanging on the chest of the child to avoid filth. The girl's wrist is also tied on the five-color silk rope, commonly known as Qiaolun. To the Begging Day untied, wrapped in a long strip of rice crackers, thrown to the roof, luring magpies to go for the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden to build a magpie bridge, and hope that they grow up to be able to weave a good embroidery of the women's red hand.

Dragon Boat Racing

Duanwu Festival and the custom of dragon boat racing, also known as the water dragon. Racing habits, prevalent in Wu, Yue, Chu.

Where there are paddling water dragon village are in the county west and the city off, the county east did not. Fighting water dragon does not count the speed of time, but to two boats side by side at the same time start rowing, the first to the winner. After the race, all the water dragon gongs and drums, have to go back, commonly known as "demolition of the river".