Chaoshan Dragon Boat Festival Customs Chaoshan Dragon Boat Festival Customs Brief Introduction

1. Chaoshan Rice Dumpling. The custom of eating zongzi at the Dragon Boat Festival in Chaoshan is passed down from the Central Plains. Qing Yongzheng "Haiyang County Zhi" contains: "Dragon Boat Festival inserted Ai Pu in the door, Ai shape tiger, and set up corner corn." Song and Ming Dynasties, there are many people in the Central Plains, Chaoshan, the custom of eating rice dumplings, should have long been there. Initially should be made at home, as a ritual, and gradually promoted for market sales of food, and the quality continues to improve.

2, real pearl cauliflower boiled pig's blood soup. Chaoshan old custom that the Dragon Boat Festival is a "holy day", eat the herbal soup can be immediately effective, and the effect is remarkable. This day, in addition to eating a variety of Chaoshan people zong, many places in Chaoshan will also be used to stretch the bones of the joints, so that the gentleman leaves, the true pearl cauliflower, eggs, pork, pig's blood, etc. together with the soup to eat, can play a bright eyesight, to remove the heat and toxins, to drive the abdominal worm effect. It is said to eat the true pearl cauliflower can brighten the eyes and remove the poisonous substance in the abdomen, make the gentleman leaves can kill the roundworms in the abdomen, the bones of the grass can strengthen the muscles and bones, and several kinds of herbs can complement each other when cooked together. Rural families are often used in the Dragon Boat Festival to make the gentleman flowers fried eggs to children to eat, to cure children chancre effect is very good. There are also used to make the gentleman leaves and barley, red bean soup drink to eat, in addition to fitness, put a little brown sugar, quite palatable.

3, five fruit soup. Five fruit soup is a traditional Chaoshan folk health food. Teochew custom to cinnamon (dragon five fruit soup eye), white fruit (ginkgo), lotus seeds, barley, lily for the spleen food, combined with the sweet soup (also replaced with persimmon, Gorgonzola), many Chaoshan families usually eat five fruit soup, but because of the old customary understanding that medicine is most effective, the day many families will be specially cooked pot of five-fruit soup the whole family **** to enjoy. In the summer, five fruit soup with thin crushed ice, ice cold and light sweet more like a wonderful spring breeze.

4, Chaoshan dragon boat. Dragon boat racing is a favorite activity of the people of Chaoshan, with a long history, and the shape of the dragon boat around the Chaoshan also has its own style, which is roughly divided into the big real dragon, small real dragon, fake dragon, soil boat dragon and the national standard dragon, and there are more special touring dry dragon.

5, hanging insert "five Swiss". Chaoshan people, along the Dragon Boat Festival in the lintel, door ring to the eaves, hanging a bunch of "red head rope" tied with mugwort, calamus, durian flowers, garlic, dragon boat flowers **** together for the five said "five Swiss". The old custom is rumored to be "five" to recruit the soul of Qu Yuan, in fact, the ancient tide of sages is aimed at the "evil month" plague is rampant and take measures to prevent health care, intended to drive away the plague to ward off evil spirits. Chenghai old county records contain: "Dragon Boat Festival door inserted ai, with ai leaves and pomegranate flowers (page) hairpin in the hair, can ward off evil spirits."