Xiamen Dragon Boat Festival customs

Xiamen Dragon Boat Festival has a dragon boat, eat zongzi, water race to catch ducks, drink xionghuang wine and other customs. Xiamen will be held every year before and after the Dragon Boat Festival dragon boat race, when the Chu people can not bear the death of the wise minister Qu Yuan, so there are many people rowing boats to catch up with the rescue, which is the origin of the Dragon Boat Race, and then every year on May 5 to commemorate the Dragon Boat Racing, and has been continued to the present day.

The Dragon Boat Festival is also known as the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival. The content of the main daughter back to her mother's home, hanging Zhong Kui statue, hanging calamus, wormwood, wear scented sachets, dragon boat races, martial arts, batting, swinging, to the children painted xionghuang, drinking xionghuang wine, eating salted eggs, zongzi, and seasonal fruits, etc., in addition to superstitious colors of the activities gradually disappeared, the rest of the customs have been spread all over China and the neighboring countries.