Rare Dragon Boat Festival customs

The Dragon Boat Festival is our traditional cultural festivals, a long heritage, is now also our legal holidays, our country folk for the Dragon Boat Festival is also relatively grand, the celebration of a variety of activities, each place is very different. Today we take a look at those rare Dragon Boat Festival customs ~

Duanwu customs

one, wash the herbal water

Wash the herbal water, one of the Dragon Boat Festival customs, Dragon Boat Festival is the day of the year in the strongest medicinal day, Dragon Boat Festival is medicine all over the place. Dragon Boat Festival wash herbal water can cure skin diseases, remove the evil spirit. During the Dragon Boat Festival, many places in China have to pick herbs to cook herbal water bath custom, Dragon Boat Festival herbs in which the medicinal properties play a vital role.

Two, pick "Dragon Boat Festival"

Pick "Dragon Boat Festival" refers to the past whenever the Dragon Boat Festival, "hairy feet son-in-law "(Ningbo people call the prospective son-in-law who has been betrothed "hairy foot son-in-law") to use red-colored rice baskets, picking a heavy gift to the woman's home, which is to pick the "Duanwu Tan".

Three, flying paper kites

In the cities of southern China, kite flying on the Dragon Boat Festival is also a custom. During the Dragon Boat Festival, children fly kites and call it "letting off calamities". Kites are paper kites. It is a toy, in the bamboo gabions and other skeleton glued with paper or silk, pulling the long line tied to it, taking advantage of the wind can be released into the sky, belonging to a pure use of aerodynamic flying machine.

Four, sticking the midday charm

Old Guangdong some places have sticking "midday charm" custom. After lunch, every family stick "noon time charm". Charms with a width of about an inch, nearly a foot long strip of yellow paper, written in vermilion on the top of the "May 5, noon book, the official wrong mouth disease snakes, insects, rats and ants are eliminated" and other words. In the door hanging calamus, phoenix tail, mugwort leaves, and tied a bunch of garlic, painted with cinnabar to avoid evil spirits. Some people also put a small couplet written on yellow paper on the door: "Ai flag welcomes a hundred blessings, bushy sword cuts down a thousand evils."

Five, fumigation Cangzhu

Fumigation Cangzhu is one of the traditional Dragon Boat Festival customary activities in the folk with Cangzhu to disinfect the air, that is, the natural Cangzhu bundled together, the burning of the thin smoke produced not only gives off a fragrance, but also can drive away mosquitoes and insects, refreshing.

Duanwu Festival from

Duanwu Festival from a lot of sayings, such as: to commemorate the Qu Yuan said; to commemorate the Wu Zixu said; to commemorate the Cao E said; from the three generations of the summer solstice festival said; the evil month of the evil day to drive to avoid that, Wu Yue national totem sacrifices said and so on. The above said, each of its origin.

According to scholars Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival" and "Dragon Boat Festival of history and education" lists more than a hundred ancient records and expert archaeological evidence, the origin of the Dragon Boat Festival, is the ancient Chinese southern Wu Yue national totem festival, earlier than Qu Yuan. However, over the centuries, Qu Yuan's patriotic spirit and touching poems have been widely and y rooted in people's hearts, so people "cherish and mourn them, and the world discusses their words in order to pass them on to each other", therefore, commemorating Qu Yuan's words has the widest and deepest impact, and occupies a mainstream position. In the field of folk culture, the Chinese people to the Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Boat Race and eat zongzi, etc., are associated with the commemoration of Qu Yuan.