In Hebei Province, the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival why market vendors will be crazy peddling mulberry and cherry?

The Dragon Boat Festival originates from the worship of the celestial phenomenon, evolved from the ancient times of the dragon totem sacrifice. Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival, Canglong seven lodging soared to the south in the sky, is the day of the dragon, that is, as the "I Ching - Qian Gua" lines of the fifth line of the lines said: "Flying Dragon in the sky". Dragon Boat Festival Dragon Star both "in" and "get positive", in a position of great good fortune, Enshi Pu also, Dragon Virtue.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival covers ancient astrological culture, humanistic philosophy and other aspects of the content, containing a profound and rich cultural connotation; in the development of the inheritance of a variety of folklore as a whole, the festival is rich in customary content. Dragon Boat and Rice Dumplings are the two major rituals of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been passed down in China since ancient times and are still practiced today.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a festival created by the ancient ancestors of the Baiyue people to honor their ancestors. Because of the legend that Qu Yuan, a poet of the State of Chu during the Warring States period, jumped into the Miluo River on the 5th day of the 5th month to kill himself, the Dragon Boat Festival has since been regarded as a festival in honor of Qu Yuan.

The festival also commemorates Wu Zixu, Cao E and Jie Zitui. In general, the Dragon Boat Festival originated in the south of the Baiyue ancestors choose "dragon ascension" auspicious day to sacrifice to the dragon ancestor, injected into the summer seasonal "disease prevention" fashion, the Dragon Boat Festival as a "bad month and bad day" in the north of the Central Plains, attached to commemorate the qu yuan and other historical figures. The commemorative content of the historical figures. The formation of Dragon Boat Festival customs can be said to be the product of the fusion of northern and southern customs.

For the Dragon Boat Festival in different places have different customs, we understand a custom before the Dragon Boat Festival in Hebei Province.

City vendors in the Dragon Boat Festival peddling cherry mulberry, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival ate cherry mulberry, can be the whole year not to eat flies by mistake.