Zhuzhou Dragon Boat Festival Customs 100 words

At the beginning of May every year, every household in China should soak glutinous rice, wash the leaves of zongzi and wrap zongzi. For ordinary people, as long as they eat zongzi, they will have the May Festival. Zongzi is also a holiday gift. Rich people can pack all kinds of fruit materials, and those who have no money can also pack water dumplings, which are both seasonal food and dinner. 2. Put on colorful zongzi and sachets and pray for disaster.

The inner shell of colorful zongzi is made of hard paper, generally about 2 cm, and is wound into a string with colored silk thread. Colorful zongzi is a folk handicraft with local and national characteristics, which brings a peaceful atmosphere to the festival. Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to mean to ward off evil spirits and plague. Actually, it is used to decorate the inner head. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, and the fragrance is overflowing, and then tied into a rope with five-color silk thread to make a string of different shapes, all kinds of exquisite and lovely.

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Since ancient times, there has been a saying in China that the south takes a boat and the north rides a horse, so the south competes in the Dragon Boat Festival, while the north once had the custom of riding a horse and shooting willows in the Jin Dynasty. Fushun Xinbin Manchu Farmhouse Many people call the fifth day of May "Yaoxiang Festival". Women often say: "May Day" is a beautiful day for herbal medicine. Others say that this dew is like a panacea. If you wash your eyes with this morning dew, your eyes will shine for a year, just like holy water. After the leaves of Artemisia argyi collected in May Festival are dried in the shade, they can be used for "moxibustion of Aizi" (acupuncture) and melted in the stomach with water. Moxibustion in autumn can cure cold legs, and children can be cured in seven days. Others say that the "eight-legged cow" (the medicinal name of Dictamni Radicis) planed this day is powerful and has a good therapeutic effect. On May Day, people get up early and go to the river to wash their eyes and faces. Manchu peasant women get up the earliest. They first went to the river to wash their faces and comb their hair, and also washed their in-laws' faces with the backwater from the copper basin. Children often sing a song in May Festival: "The brown seeds in the kitchen are fragrant, the leaves of Artemisia argyi are full of fragrance, and the peach branches are planted in the grid, which is fun and harmonious." From this lyric, people will think that Artemisia argyi is more aura than other herbs. The lyrics of "wormwood leaves are full of fragrance" are because there were many straw houses in Xinbin Mountain City in 1930s. There are few brick houses, and a large row of mugwort leaves is inserted in the eaves. The wind blew into the room along the open window, and the quiet fragrance filled the room, which really made the mugwort fragrant. In rural areas where Manchu people gather, peach branches are usually inserted on the gate on May Festival. Or carved into a small flower basket with peach stones and hung on the door or the child's wrist and neck, which is considered to ward off evil spirits.

4. Hanging Artemisia argyi and Acorus calamus:

There is a folk proverb that says, "Willows are inserted in Qingming Festival, and Ai is inserted in Dragon Boat Festival". On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard Artemisia argyi and Acorus calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the court, puts calamus and moxa sticks between their eyebrows and hangs them in the class. The stems and leaves of Artemisia argyi contain volatile aromatic oil. Its unique fragrance can repel mosquitoes, flies, insects and ants and purify the air. Chinese medicine uses wormwood as medicine, which has the functions of nourishing qi and blood, warming uterus and dispelling cold and dampness. Processing Artemisia argyi leaves into "moxa wool" is an important medicinal material for moxibustion treatment.

Acorus calamus is a perennial aquatic herb, and its long and narrow leaves also contain volatile aromatic oil, which is a good medicine for refreshing, strengthening bones, eliminating stagnation, killing insects and sterilizing.

It can be seen that the ancients inserted wormwood leaves and calamus to have a certain disease prevention effect. Dragon Boat Festival is also a "health festival" handed down from ancient times. On this day, people sweep the courtyard, hang mugwort leaves, hang calamus, sprinkle realgar wine, drink realgar wine, stir up turbidity, remove rot, sterilize and prevent diseases.