Why is Dragon Boat Festival also called Health and Epidemic Prevention Festival?

202 1 June 14 is the traditional festival Dragon Boat Festival. According to folklore experts, judging from some customs and eating habits of the Dragon Boat Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival is rich in medical and health care contents, which can be called the earliest "health and epidemic prevention festival" in China.

Guo Qing, who is engaged in folklore research, told reporters that in ancient times, May was commonly called "evil month" and "poisonous month", and the fifth day was also called "evil day" and "poisonous day". The fifth day of May is evil month and evil day, which is the most taboo for people. Therefore, in the old society, health care and epidemic prevention were the main principles of the Dragon Boat Festival, and special customs such as inserting wormwood leaves, drinking realgar wine and tying colored silk thread were formed to ward off evil spirits and avoid epidemics.

Traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival

The content of Dragon Boat Festival custom is rich and colorful. These customs revolve around the Dragon Boat Festival, praying for blessings, fighting disasters and other forms, pinning people's wishes to welcome good luck, ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. There are many customs of the Dragon Boat Festival, with various forms and rich contents, and the celebrations are lively. The Dragon Boat Festival has integrated many kinds of folk customs in its historical development and evolution. Due to different regional cultures, there are differences in customs content or details across the country.

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival mainly include dragon boat picking, Dragon Boat Festival, herb picking, hanging wormwood and calamus, ancestor worship, washing herbal water, drinking water at noon, soaking in dragon boats, eating zongzi, flying kites, tying colorful silk thread, smoking Atractylodes lancea and wearing sachets.

Dragon Boat Race is very popular in the southern coastal areas of China, which is deeply loved by people all over the world and has formed an international competition. The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular all over China since ancient times, and it has become one of the most influential and widespread folk food customs of the Chinese nation.

Performing traditional folk activities during the Dragon Boat Festival can not only enrich people's spiritual and cultural life, but also inherit and carry forward traditional culture. Dragon Boat Festival culture has a wide influence in the world, and some countries and regions in the world also celebrate it.

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