Duanwu Customs in Linfen

Eating dumplings dumplings sweet, salty and spicy flavors are available, corner, cone, tube shape are seen. Jinbei region folk package zongzi, dip rice in the water to put some leaves. Linfen area will be some of the dumplings with five-color line bundled around. The intention is to ward off evil spirits.

Drinking Xionghuang Wine

Shanxi folk "drink Xionghuang wine, all diseases far away from the proverb. During the festival, adults in addition to drinking xionghuang wine, but also in the seven orifices of the smear a little. Children do not drink, do the mother to use chopsticks dipped in wine, point in the child's ear, nose and navel and other places.

Plugging Artemisia

Duanwu Festival, families should be inserted in the door a bunch of wormwood to ward off evil spirits. Jinbei custom will be woven into a human figure, hanging in the lintel, known as Ai people. Linfen custom will be woven into the shape of a tiger, hanging in the door, known as Ai Hu. Quwo and other places are cut into a tiger with paper, sticky mugwort leaves, pasted on the door, known as paste door tiger. Wanrong and other places are picking tea leaves hanging lintel, some places by the river grass, used to insert calamus on the door, there are places where the door is pasted Zhong Kui face to drive away evil spirits. Some places in Linfen, the Dragon Boat Festival to use five-color thread will be furniture, door rings and other things to wrap.

Wearing scented bags

Duanwu Festival, mothers should be made before the festival with rags of beasts, flowers and other shapes of sachets, filled with andrographis, cangzhu and other Chinese herbs and spices, worn on the child. Boys are mostly tigers, lions and the like, girls are mostly flowers and birds, and legend has it that they can prevent viruses from entering the body. Some places in northern Jin also prevailed with broken cloth, fine wild rice stalks made into a charm section, sewn on the child's back, commonly known as "to eat the child", hoping that the child to eliminate disasters and difficulties, healthy growth. In addition to the bag of incense, but also with five-color flowers rolled into a rope, in front of the gods set up a prayer, hanging in the children's wrists, ankles, neck, known as the "hundred rope", wear enough to lift the one hundred days square. Xiangning Dragon Boat Festival, special attention to the sun out of the mountains before the river to bring back a bucket of clean water, soaked in mugwort leaves for the whole family to wash their hands and faces, it is said to ward off evil spirits and drive away poison. Wanrong and other places in the sunrise, on the mountain or to the field collection of berries, fruit wood, psyllium, tea, etc., after seven steamed seven sun dry, known as the "hundred leaves of tea". Some places in northern Jin, used to buy a new mirror before the Dragon Boat Festival, the festival to try out the new, the whole family to take a look.

Caught toad

Duanwu Festival, Linfen area, the old custom to catch back a toad to save. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the ink ingot is stuffed into the toad's abdomen and dried up, which is called "toad ink ingot". Legend has it that it can be used to clear heat and detoxify poison.