What traditional customs have been preserved in the place where you live during the Dragon Boat Festival?

Customs and traditions include eating zongzi, roasting dragon boats, hanging wormwood and calamus, tying five-color silk thread, wearing sachets, washing herbal water, drinking water at noon, avoiding the five poisons and drinking realgar wine.

1. Eating zongzi: There is a custom of eating zongzi during the Dragon Boat Festival. Every family makes a lot of zongzi. The reed leaves in my hometown of jiaozi are that long. The wrapped zongzi is very long. Zongzi is wrapped and cooked to worship the ancestors first. This is the first step that must be completed. From the taste point of view, zongzi can be divided into salty zongzi and sweet zongzi, and some zongzi also contain red dates and peanuts.

2. Dragon boat race: Dragon boat race is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival. According to legend, before the Spring and Autumn Period, some tribes who worshipped dragon totem in ancient Baiyue area held a memorial ceremony of tribal totem in the form of dragon boat race on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, which was the first appearance of the first five-year dragon boat race on the fifth day of May. Now the Dragon Boat Festival is mainly for entertainment, and it is a group rowing competition for many people.

3. Hanging wormwood and calamus: On the Dragon Boat Festival, people will hang wormwood and calamus on the gate. Because both wormwood and calamus have the functions of repelling mosquitoes and ants, it means using them to ward off diseases, mosquitoes and evil spirits.

4. Five-color silk thread of tie: Five-color silk thread is made of five colors: blue, red, white, black and yellow. On the Dragon Boat Festival, parents will tie colorful silk threads on their wrists and ankles before sunrise to ward off evil spirits. Then wait until it rains.

5, wearing sachets: wearing sachets is one of the traditional customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. The sachet is usually filled with some Chinese herbal medicines with aroma and enlightenment, which have the effects of aroma, insect repellent, epidemic prevention and disease prevention. Children wear sachets on the Dragon Boat Festival, which is said to mean to ward off evil spirits and plague. Most of the sachets are heart-shaped. The cloth is also colorful. Most girls wear them.

6, washing herbal water: noon is the day with the most Chinese herbal medicines in a year, and there are medicines everywhere. Washing herbal water on this day can treat skin diseases and eliminate evil spirits.

7. midday water: midday water, that is, the water that is hit in the well at noon at the end of the day. The ancients regarded afternoon water as good luck water. On this day, the sunshine is the most abundant at noon, and the effect of exorcism is the best at noon, which has the effect of exorcising evil spirits, purifying the body and removing obstacles. In rural areas with wells, water will still be pumped at noon.

8. Avoid five poisons: Dragon Boat Festival is a poisonous day and an evil day in the minds of ancient northerners, so there are various customs of seeking peace and avoiding five poisons. Due to the hot summer weather in the north, plagues are easy to prevail and snakes and insects are easy to bite, which makes northerners have the custom of "avoiding the five poisons" and "hiding from the Dragon Boat Festival".

9, drink realgar wine: realgar is also a medicinal material, I heard that it can kill all poisons. The custom of drinking realgar wine on Dragon Boat Festival is very popular in the Yangtze River valley. As the saying goes, "drinking realgar wine will cure all diseases." Every family will drink realgar wine during the Dragon Boat Festival.