On May 5th, it was Duanyang. The door is full of incense. Eat zongzi and sprinkle sugar. What does it mean to be happy in the dragon boat?

In other words, during the Dragon Boat Festival, people will buy wormwood and insert it on the door to ward off evil spirits. When eating zongzi, they can sprinkle some sugar on it. At noon, people will have a dragon boat race on the water.

Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional festival in China. The customs mainly include dragon boat picking, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood and calamus, worshipping gods and ancestors, washing herbal water, taking water at noon, soaking in dragon boats, eating zongzi, flying kites, tying colored silk thread, smoking Atractylodes lancea and wearing sachets.

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Multiple aliases of Dragon Boat Festival

A major feature of the Dragon Boat Festival is its diverse names. Some people have done statistics, and there are more than 20 names and titles, among which people are familiar with Dragon Boat Festival, Summer Festival, May Festival, Daughter's Day and so on.

The origin of these names is related to the customs and cultural connotation of the Dragon Boat Festival itself. In ancient Chinese, "Duan" has the meaning of beginning and beginning, which is called "Dragon Boat Festival", which is also the "fifth day". "Local Customs" refers to "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival". End, start. "

In addition, the ancients used heavenly stems and earthly branches in their calendars. According to this calculation, the fifth month of the lunar calendar is "noon month" and noon is considered as "sun", so the Dragon Boat Festival is also called "Duanyang".

As mentioned earlier, the Dragon Boat Festival is homophonic on the fifth day, the fifth day and the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, so it is also called the "Heavy Noon Festival" or "Heavy Five Festival", and in some places it is also called the "May Festival".

Interestingly, at this time, a big custom is to eat zongzi. The ancients once had a little game, that is, after eating zongzi, they would compare the length of their leaves, and the person with long leaves would win, so it was called "Jie Zong Jie".