Dragon Boat Festival folk activities are which?

The old Duanwu Festival women's headdress. Mostly found in Jiangnan. Some areas are also known as Jianren. This thing is said to have originated from the ancient step rock, said that the Ai people in a different form.

2, hanging tiger

Old Dragon Boat Festival to drive away evil spirits, but also for decoration. Ancient China regarded the tiger as a sacred animal, commonly thought to be able to suppress the evil spirits, blessing peace.

3, painting forehead

Duanwu Festival, the custom of smearing children's foreheads with the male yellow, the cloud can drive away poisonous insects. Typical method is to use the male yellow wine in the children's forehead painting "king" word, a borrowed male yellow to drive poison, the second borrowed tiger ("king" like the tiger's forehead, and tiger for the king of the beasts, because of the substitution of the tiger) in order to suppress the evil.

4, wear long-life wisp

Duanwu Festival, when the aversion to winning jewelry. Also known as renewed life wisps, renewed life silk, prolonged life wisps, longevity line, hundred rope, Pai Bing Shao, colorful wisps, etc., the name varies, the shape, the function is largely the same. Customary in the Dragon Boat Festival to five-color silk knot and into the rope, or hanging in the door, or wear children's necks, or tie children's arms, or hanging in the bed net, cradle, etc., is said to be able to avoid disaster in addition to disease, blessing of well-being, longevity. The shape of such festivals are generally five: a simple five-color silk thread into a rope, tied to the arm; in the colorful rope decorated with gold and tin ornaments, hanging on the neck; colorful rope folded into a square win, decorated in front of the chest; colorful rope knots for the portrait of the wearer; colorful silk embroidered and painted the sun, moon, stars, beasts and other things, to honor the elders. This custom began in the Han Dynasty.

5, wearing a scented bag

Wearing a scented bag, scented bag, also known as the scented bag, scented bag, purse, etc., there are five-color silk thread wrapped, there are rags sewn together, filled with spices (with the Chinese herbs dahuric dahurica, Rhizoma Ligustici Chuanxiong, Scutellaria baicalensis, row of grasses, mountain naira, sweet pines, made of Gao Beng line), to wear in front of the chest, the fragrance of the nose. These portable bags, the contents of several changes, from sweat-absorbing mussel powder, to drive away evil spirits, copper coins, androgynous powder to ward off insects, the development of spice-filled scented pouches, the production is becoming more and more sophisticated, and has become the Dragon Boat Festival unique folk art.

6, to avoid the five poisons

Duanwu in the minds of the ancients is a poisonous day, the evil day, in the folk beliefs of this idea has been passed down, so there are all kinds of peace, avoiding the custom of disaster. In fact, this is because the summer weather is hot and dry, people are prone to disease, the plague is also easy to epidemic; coupled with the multiplication of snakes and insects, easy to bite people, so be very careful, which is the formation of this custom.

7, hanging herbs

Ai, calamus and garlic is known as the "Dragon Boat Festival three friends". In the North and South Dynasties, the Dragon Boat Festival was also known as the "Mu Lan Festival", and there was a custom of picking moxa in the Jingchu area. Picking mugwort to set off before the cock crows, pick the most humanoid mugwort to take back to hang on the door, some will also tie the mugwort into the shape of a tiger, and then paste the mugwort leaves on it. Mugwort and calamus contain aromatic oils, and they are as antiseptic as garlic.

There are also places where mugwort, calamus (Pu Jian) or pomegranate and garlic are hung at the door on the Dragon Boat Festival. Usually, moxa, banyan and calamus are tied into a bundle with red paper and then inserted or hung on the door. Because calamus is the first of the Five Rays in the sky, symbolizing the sword to drive away bad luck, because of the season of growth and shape is considered to be the sense of the "hundred yin of the gas", the leaves are sword-shaped, inserted in the doorway to ward off evil spirits. So the priests called it "water sword", and later custom was extended to "Pu Jian", can cut down a thousand evil.

8, rowing dragon boat

In the rowing dragon boat, and more singing to cheer the dragon boat song circulated. Such as zigui in hubei zigui rowing dragon boat, there is a complete singing, words and music according to the local folk songs and horns fusion and become, singing sound majestic and magnificent, heart-stopping, that is, "lifting the bow and the phase and the" of the legacy of the wind. Another example is the Dragon Boat Song of Nanxiong County, Guangdong Province, which is sung in April after the launching of the dragon boat to the end of the Dragon Boat Festival, with a wide range of performance content.

"Zongzi incense, incense kitchen. The fragrance of mugwort leaves fills the hall. Peach sticks are inserted on the gate, and when you go out, you can see the yellow wheat. Duanyang here, Duanyang there, Duanyang everywhere."

9, eat zongzi

Overall, people around the Dragon Boat Festival customs are similar, and Dragon Boat Festival to eat zongzi, throughout the ages, all over China are the same. Today's dumplings are even more diverse and brilliant. Today's zongzi around, generally use Ruo shell package glutinous rice, but contains the color is based on local specialties and customs, the famous cinnamon zongzi, meat zongzi, crystal zongzi, lotus seed paste zongzi, candied fruit zongzi, chestnut zongzi, spicy zongzi, pickled vegetables zongzi, ham zongzi, salted egg zongzi and so on.