What are the traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival?

Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, etc. It is a folk festival that combines offering sacrifices to gods and ancestors, praying for evil spirits, celebrating entertainment and eating. But do you know what is the traditional custom of Dragon Boat Festival? If you don't know, come and find out with me ~

Traditional customs of Dragon Boat Festival

First, the dragon boat.

Dragon boat rowing is a multi-person collective rowing competition, an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, a ceremony of ancient dragon totem and a heritage. It is an important activity of the Dragon Boat Festival, and it is still very popular in the southern coastal areas of China. After it was spread abroad, it was deeply loved by people all over the world and formed an international competition.

There are dragon boats and phoenix boats on the Dragon Boat Festival. Phoenix boats originated from ancient black boats, and in some places there are dragon and phoenix boats. Boasting dragon boat is a form of dragon worship in folk belief, that is, using the power of dragon to pray for good luck and ward off evil spirits.

Second, hang wormwood and calamus

On the Dragon Boat Festival, people regard inserting wormwood and calamus as one of the important contents. Every family sweeps the courtyard, inserts calamus and moxa sticks in their eyebrows and hangs them in the hall. It is believed that wormwood also has the function of exorcising evil spirits and attracting happiness. During the Dragon Boat Festival, hanging wormwood on the door has become a habit and a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival.

There is a custom of hanging wormwood on the Dragon Boat Festival all over the north and south. In the south, heaven and earth are regarded as pure yang, healthy qi and auspicious days to drive away evil spirits and diseases, while in some places in the north, evil moons and evil days are regarded as evil spirits and drugs.

Third, wash herbal water.

Washing herbal water is one of the customs of Dragon Boat Festival. Dragon Boat Festival is the day with the most Chinese herbal medicines in a year, and medicines are everywhere at noon. Washing herbal water at noon can cure skin diseases and dispel evil spirits. During the Dragon Boat Festival, many places in China have the custom of collecting herbs, boiling herbs and soaking in water, and the medicinal properties of the Dragon Boat Festival herbs play a vital role in it.

Fourth, fly a kite.

Flying kites during the Dragon Boat Festival is also a custom in southern China. During the Dragon Boat Festival, children flying kites is called "disaster relief". Kites are paper kites. It is a toy. Paste paper or silk on a bamboo pole and other skeletons, and pull a long line tied to it, so that it can be lowered into the sky under the action of the wind. Belongs to an aircraft that only uses aerodynamic force.

Fifth, play polo

Polo is riding a horse and hitting with a stick. In ancient times, it was called bowing. There is no custom of dragon boat racing in northern China, but they shoot willows and play polo during the Dragon Boat Festival, which obviously comes from the competitive legacy of nomadic people in the north. Polo is riding a horse and hitting with a stick. In ancient times, it was called bowing.

The origin of the Dragon Boat Festival

In the history of our country, the saying that the Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate Qu Yuan has a history of 1500 years. According to legend, after Qu Yuan threw himself into the Miluo River, the local people immediately rowed for rescue, and all the way to Dongting Lake, but Qu Yuan's body was never seen. It was raining at that time, and the boats on the lake gathered at the pavilion on the shore. When people learned that it was to salvage the sage Dr. Qu, they went out in the rain and rushed into the vast Dongting Lake.

In order to mourn, people rowed on the river, and later it gradually developed into a dragon boat race. People were afraid that fish in the river would eat his body, so they went home and threw rice balls into the river to prevent fish and shrimp from ruining Qu Yuan's body. Later, eating zongzi became a custom.