What are the customs of Dragon Boat Festival?

The customs of the Dragon Boat Festival include: picking dragon boats, eating zongzi, flying kites, tying colored silk thread and drinking water at noon.

1, roast dragon boat

Dragon boat rowing is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, a ritual of ancient dragon totem sacrifice and a heritage. Boating dragon boat has a long history, and it is a multi-person collective rowing competition. The dragon boat race is divided into several parts, such as inviting dragons, offering sacrifices to dragon gods, Youlong and collecting dragons. Before the dragon boat race, a grand sacrifice ceremony is usually held. One is to invite dragons to worship the gods. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, you should choose an auspicious day to come out of the water, and after offering sacrifices to the gods, you should install a dragon head and a dragon tail, and then prepare for the race.

2. Eat zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival

Zongzi, or "Zongzi Zan", is commonly known as Zongzi. Its main materials are glutinous rice and stuffing, and it is wrapped with Indocalamus leaves (or Hiragi leaves) into various shapes, such as sharp corners and quadrangles. Zongzi has a long history, originally as a tribute to ancestors and gods. After being introduced to the north, it is made of millet (produced in the north), which is called "corn millet". The custom of eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival has been popular in China for thousands of years, and it has become one of the most influential and extensive folk food customs of the Chinese nation, and spread to North Korea, Japan and Southeast Asian countries.

3. Fly a kite.

A kite is an aircraft that sticks paper or silk to a bamboo frame and pulls a long line on it. It can be put into the sky under the action of wind, and it belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force. In southern China, children flying kites during the Dragon Boat Festival is called "flying disaster".

Step 4 tie five-color silk thread

In the traditional culture of China, the five colors "blue, red, white, black and yellow" symbolizing the five elements are regarded as auspicious colors. It was once a popular holiday custom to tie one's arm with colored silk thread during the Dragon Boat Festival. Passed on to future generations, it developed into many beautiful decorations, such as longevity wisps, longevity locks, sachets and so on. Its production has become increasingly exquisite and has become a unique folk art of the Dragon Boat Festival. On the Dragon Boat Festival, children should tie colorful silk threads on their wrists and ankles to ward off evil spirits.

Step 5 drink water at noon

The water at noon is the water pumped from the well at noon on Sunday. Drinking water at noon on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom prevailing in the southern coastal areas. At noon, the sun rises above the sun, so "midday water" is called "extremely sunny water", "Long Mu water" and "zhengyang water".