What are the customs of Jiangsu Dragon Boat Festival?

The customs and habits of Jiangsu Dragon Boat Festival are: picking dragon boats, hanging wormwood, eating zongzi and flying kites during the Dragon Boat Festival.

1, roast dragon boat

Dragon boat picking is an important activity of Dragon Boat Festival, a ritual of ancient dragon totem sacrifice and a kind of heritage. According to the first excavation report of Hemudu site, as early as 7000 years ago, ancient ancestors had carved wooden boats out of a single piece of wood and rowed them with wooden paddles.

Step 2 hang wormwood

People regard wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents of the Dragon Boat Festival. Such as wormwood hanging on the door, Jingchu Chronicle: "Collecting wormwood is like hanging a door with poison gas."

3. Eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival

Zongzi, or "Zongzi Zan", is commonly known as Zongzi. Its main materials are glutinous rice and stuffing, and it is wrapped with Indocalamus leaves (or Hiragi leaves) into various shapes, such as sharp corners and quadrangles. Zongzi has a long history, originally as a tribute to ancestors and gods. After being introduced to the north, it is made of millet (produced in the north), which is called "corn millet".

4. Fly a kite.

A kite is an aircraft that sticks paper or silk to a bamboo frame and pulls a long line on it. It can be put into the sky under the action of wind, and it belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force. In southern China, children flying kites during the Dragon Boat Festival is called "flying disaster".

Step 5 tie five-color silk thread

In the traditional culture of China, the five colors "blue, red, white, black and yellow" symbolizing the five elements are regarded as auspicious colors. It was once a popular holiday custom to tie one's arm with colored silk thread during the Dragon Boat Festival.