What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival in Zixing City?

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Zixing City include eating zongzi, wearing sachets, hanging mugwort leaves and racing dragon boats.

Dragon Boat Festival is a special day for China people to remember Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet during the Warring States Period, and to express their love for each other. This festival is the precipitation of history and the inheritance of culture. On the Dragon Boat Festival, Zixing people are also very busy, busy worshipping Qu Yuan, making zongzi, rowing dragon boats and inserting mugwort leaves, immersed in the festive atmosphere.

Zixing is a traditional custom of making zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival. Zongzi, as the representative food of the Dragon Boat Festival, is put into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from biting Qu Yuan's body, and also because the edges and corners of Zongzi are like a knife, which can eradicate diseases and disasters. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, glutinous rice has the functions of benefiting qi and strengthening the spleen, appetizing and promoting digestion, and eating zongzi has the functions of clearing away heat and relieving annoyance and helping the spleen to stimulate appetite.