What are the main activities of the Dragon Boat Festival?

1, Dragon Boat Race: Dragon Boat Race is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival with 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.

2, hanging wormwood, calamus: Dragon Boat Festival, arranging all kinds of flowers and plants that can exorcise evil spirits and diseases, and the source is also long. People regard wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents of the Dragon Boat Festival.

Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival: Eating zongzi on Dragon Boat Festival is a traditional custom of the Chinese nation since ancient times. The main materials of zongzi are rice, stuffing and so on, and its patterns are varied. Because of the different eating habits in different places, zongzi has formed a north-south flavor.

4. Flying the kite: The kite is an aircraft that only uses air power by sticking paper or silk on a bamboo pole and pulling a long line on it. In southern China, children flying kites during the Dragon Boat Festival is called "flying disaster".

5. Five-color silk thread of tie: In the traditional culture of China, the five colors "green, red, white, black and yellow" symbolizing the five elements are regarded as auspicious colors.