What are the customs of Wuwei Dragon Boat Festival?

Popular customs are the same in northern China, and Wuwei is certainly the same.

Jiaozi, fried cakes, Wuwei people also make oil cakes and burritos, and insert willow branches or Elaeagnus angustifolia flowers at the door to buy or make purses for children.

Pouch, also called sachet or sachet, is made of Chinese herbal medicines such as wormwood, angelica dahurica, calamus, borneol, atractylodes macrocephala, realgar and camphor. Grinding into fine powder, and packaging into a medicine box. The faint scent of Chinese herbal medicine is used to drive away germs and increase body fragrance. It is a delicate and beautiful handicraft, embroidered with flowers, birds, insects, fish and other patterns, lifelike, lifelike.

Oil cake cake is a special snack in Wuwei, and it is also the most attractive flavor snack. In the past, there was a saying in Wuwei that taught children to be frugal: "Blessed can't be tolerated, and you can't roll meat with oil cakes."

The method of oil cake burrito is to use a small basket made of wormwood leaves lined with grass, then put a layer of glutinous rice softened with water, then put a layer of red dates and sprinkle with brown sugar. Repeatedly, when it is full, pull the mugwort leaves on both sides to cover it in the middle, then wrap the basket with thick cotton thread like a fishing net, press clean stones on it, and cook it in a pot until it is fragrant and sticky. Fry a thin and soft cake and roll the sticky cake into it to enjoy. The glutinous rice cake is white and red, and the oil cake is golden yellow. Then take a bite, sweet and fragrant. Really make you stop saying that there is such a delicious taste in this world. On that day, every household will also give their own cakes and cakes to relatives and friends to taste each other.

In the custom of Wuwei, willow branches are inserted at the door of every household during the Dragon Boat Festival, thinking that Qu Yuan evokes spirits to avoid disaster. On that day, some people like to wash their whole bodies with boiled mugwort leaves at noon. It is said that at noon, mugwort is moist and yang-nourishing, which is specially used to suppress all malice and will not attract insect bites after washing. Children's mouths, noses and ears are covered with realgar wine by adults. It is said that realgar is warm and bitter, and can cure insect and snake bites and tinea and scabies. According to legend, this can avoid the "five poisons" of snakes, scorpions, geckos, toads and centipedes. Urban and rural residents go to Leitai Lake, Haicang Temple, Confucius Temple and other places in droves, while children go to these places to climb trees and break branches, and weave wicker hats to prevent heatstroke.

Liangzhou uses reed leaves to make zongzi. First, put reed leaves in a boiling pot to boil, then soak glutinous rice and red dates in clear water. Then, fold reed leaves into triangular bags and put them into glutinous rice, add a few red dates, wrap them tightly, then put them into a glutinous rice basket and boil them in water. Two hours later, the zongzi was cooked. Stripped off, the zongzi is white and blue, with a few red dates dotted on it, like a suet jade inlaid with red agate.

Liangzhou people also visit Dayun Temple and Haicang Temple during the Dragon Boat Festival. Dayun Temple is the Bell and Drum Tower. There is a big cloud bell. The tourists climbed the bell tower, walked around it and got under it. It is said that it can eliminate disasters and avoid special features.