What is the usual way to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival?

People usually celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival by eating, tying and picking.

One is to eat "Huang Wu", that is, food with yellow characters in its name, which means "pick up" when "green and yellow don't pick up"; And the custom of drinking realgar wine. There is an old saying: "Drink realgar wine and you will get well."

The second is to tie a gourd, broom and hang a map of the five poisons.

The third way is to pick mugwort leaves and stick the whole mugwort leaves on the door or hang them on the door.

There are also folk customs of wearing colored ropes, hanging peppers, wearing tiger shoes and writing the word "king" on children's heads, all in order to drive away disasters and plagues and seek well-being and good luck.

Special diet of Dragon Boat Festival

1, Zongzi: Eating Zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom in China. There are many shapes and varieties of zongzi, such as regular triangle, regular quadrangle, pointed triangle, square and long. Due to the different flavors in different parts of China, there are mainly two kinds: sweet and salty. ?

2. Realgar wine: The custom of drinking realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River basin. White wine or yellow wine brewed from ground realgar. Realgar can be used as an antidote and insecticide. Therefore, the ancients believed that realgar could inhibit snakes, scorpions and other pests. "Good can kill all poisons, eliminate all evils and cure all poisons. When a man turns his horse upside down, the tiger and the wolf crouch in the mountains, and all kinds of poisons enter the Sichuan water to avoid it. "

3. Huang Wu: Jiangsu and Zhejiang have the custom of eating "Huang Wu" during the Dragon Boat Festival. Huang Wu refers to yellow croaker, cucumber, Monopterus albus, duck egg yolk and realgar wine (realgar wine is toxic, and ordinary rice wine is generally used instead of realgar wine). There are other sayings that salted duck eggs can be replaced by soybeans. In the fifth month of the lunar calendar, Jiangnan people call it May and Yellow Moon.