What are the Dragon Boat Festival customs in Xifu

Hanging Zhong Kui statue: Zhong Kui to catch ghosts, is the Dragon Boat Festival custom, in the Jianghuai area, every family hanging Zhong Kui statue, used to suppress the house to drive away evil spirits.

Dragon Boat Racing: when the Chu people could not bear the death of the wise minister Qu Yuan, so there are many people rowing to save the boat, is the origin of the You Boat Racing, and after the fifth of May every year to commemorate the Dragon Boat Racing. The dragon boat was used to disperse the fish in the river, so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. The custom of racing was prevalent in Wu, Yue and Chu.

Taiwan began to have You boat racing was begun in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong 29 years, by the then Taiwan Governor Chiang Yuanjun in Tainan City, Fahua Temple half-moon pool hosted a friendly competition. Now Taiwan every year on the 5th of May are held on the boat race, Hong Kong has a race, near the British also follow the example of our people, the organization of the ghost team, the competition.

According to the famous modern patriotic scholar Mr. Wen Yiduo's "Dragon Boat Festival," said: "Dragon Boat Festival is the Wu-Yue ethnic groups held a totem sacrifice to the Fei's festival, and the dragon boat race is a half-religious rituals. Half entertainment program."

Four or five thousand years ago, living in the primitive totemic society of the water tribal people, by snakes and insects, disease and flooding threat, in order to ward off these natural disasters, they worship the imagined power of the dragon as their ancestors and protection of the god (i.e., Totem), and built the boat into the shape of a dragon, painted with dragon pattern, held every year at the end of the Dragon Boat Festival race. To show respect for the dragon, but also that they are the descendants of the dragon, the descendants of the dragon.

Eating zongzi: Jing Chu people in the May 5 cooking glutinous rice or steamed zongzi cake into the river, to worship Qu Yuan, for fear of fish eat, so the bamboo tube containing glutinous rice thrown down, and then gradually use zongzi leaves instead of bamboo tube.

Drinking Xionghuang wine: Xionghuang is a mineral, containing arsenic trisulfide components, mixed with wine. That is, into the andrographis wine, used to expel insects to solve the five poisons, children coated in the forehead. Ear, nose, hands, feet and heart. And sprinkle the walls to ask, in order to law of all poisons. The story of "The Legend of the White Snake" has been passed down in the folklore, that is, to solve the poison of snakes and vipers with androgynous wine, and to show the original shape of the white snake. This kind of practice is very popular among people in the Yangtze River basin area.

You hundred diseases: the Dragon Boat Festival custom prevalent in Guizhou. Men, women and children to the field to play, wearing new clothes, at noon around one, the road on the mountain or under the tree crowded crowd, holding flowers and plants, very happy. Home at night will be flowers and plants and water boiled bath, the elderly known as the "tour of the hundred diseases" and "wash the hundred diseases", do not go out to tour the hundred diseases and wash the hundred diseases of the people, the year will not get lucky.

Pei scented sacs: Dragon Boat Festival children Pei scented sacs, not only to ward off evil spirits to drive away the meaning of the plague, but also a lapel head embellishment of the wind. Scented sachet hidden inside the vermilion. Andrographis. Fragrance medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, fragrant, and then five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, exquisite ~