What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival in different regions?

The customs of Dragon Boat Festival include rowing dragon boats, hanging wormwood and calamus, eating zongzi, flying kites, drinking Pu wine, realgar wine, cinnabar wine, collecting herbs and making herbal tea. Different customs in different regions are as follows:

Guangdong: Guangdong's Dragon Boat Festival customs mainly include picking dragon boats, eating zongzi, inserting wormwood, watching dragon boats, eating dragon boat rice, making the finishing point, worshiping gods and ancestors, praying for disaster relief, having lunch, throwing paper kites, washing herbal water and soaking in dragon boat water.

Jiangsu: In addition to rowing dragon boats, the custom of Jiangsu Dragon Boat Festival also includes five poison diagrams, Acorus calamus leaves, Zhong Kui statues, colorful arms wrapped, silk zongzi hanging, wearing five poison clothes, sachets and so on. The festival diet mainly includes zongzi, realgar wine and Huang Wu banquet. During the Dragon Boat Festival in Jiading County, people, rich or poor, have to buy stone fish. There is a dragon boat show in Wujin at night. In the evening, small lanterns are hung around the dragon boat, and flutes and drums sing harmoniously.

Zhejiang: The Dragon Boat Festival customs in Zhejiang include eating zongzi, offering sacrifices to the Dragon King, racing dragon boats, hanging calamus and mugwort leaves, tying colored silk, drinking realgar wine, eating Huang Wu, wearing sachets and picking herbs.

Hebei: It is forbidden to drill well water during the Dragon Boat Festival in Beiping, and it is often pre-pumped before the festival. It is said that it can avoid well poison. On Dragon Boat Festival, street vendors also sell cherry mulberries. It is said that they eat cherry mulberries on Dragon Boat Festival, but they can't eat flies by mistake all year round. "Five Poison Cakes", which are cakes decorated with five poisonous insect patterns, are sold in various food stores.

Shandong: On the Dragon Boat Festival in zouping county, Shandong Province, everyone needs a glass of wine to get up early. It is said that it can ward off evil spirits. Rizhao Dragon Boat Festival wraps five-color thread for children. On the Dragon Boat Festival in Linqing County, boys under seven wear symbols (necklaces made of wheat barnyard grass), girls wear pomegranate flowers and yellow cloth shoes made by their mothers, and draw five kinds of poisonous insects on the vamps with a brush. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, Jimo washes his face with dew.

Shanxi: Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom of urban and rural people in Shanxi Province. It is a custom to wrap zongzi on the first day of the Dragon Boat Festival. Traditional zongzi is filled with millet, accompanied by red dates, wrapped in reed leaves and mixed with sugar when eating. Drinking realgar wine is also an important custom of Shanxi folk Dragon Boat Festival, which is mainly used to prevent diseases and detoxify.

Shaanxi: During the Dragon Boat Festival in Xing 'an League, Shaanxi Province, local officials led their subordinates to watch the game, which was called "stepping stones". At the Dragon Boat Festival in Xingping County, a small corn is sewn with silk, and a small doll is sewn below it, which is called "playing with dolls". The Dragon Boat Festival in Tongguan County is called "town disease", and there are Pu Ai and paper cows sticking to the door.

Gansu: Picking roses during the Dragon Boat Festival in Jingning, Gansu Province, mainly with honey pickling. Zhenyuan county presented a fragrant fan, a Luo Qi, a towel handkerchief and a Ai Hu to the newlyweds during the Dragon Boat Festival. In Zhang Xi 'an County, the shepherd boy worships mountain gods. Accumulated salary mountain, chicken calls before burning, commonly known as "burning mountain" The Dragon Boat Festival in Gaoyou is very special. There are customs such as tying a hundred scorpions, sticking five poisons, sticking symbols, emitting yellow smoke and eating "Twelve Red". Children hang "duck eggs", that is, choose beautiful duck eggs, put them in colored lines and hang them on their chests.