What are the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Gaoyou?

The Dragon Boat Festival customs in Gaoyou are quite special, there are the customs of tying hundred cords, sticking five poisons, sticking talismans, releasing yellow smoke, eating "twelve reds" and so on, and the children Xing hang the "Duck Eggs Loop", which is to pick the good-looking duck eggs to be mounted in the colorful threads knotted into a loop and hanged in front of their chests.

Twist the colorful thread into a small rope and tie it around your wrist. Silk thread is colorless, wash your face when stained with water, wrists printed with a red green one is called the Department of a hundred rope;

Red paper cut into five poisons, pasted on the threshold of the silk wrapped into a small dumplings, filled with incense, one by one, string up, hanging on the tent hook.

Put yellow smoke, which is not filled with nitrate, but the male yellow, lighted, not loud, just a yellow smoke, can smoke for a while, the lighted yellow smoke thrown in the cupboard below, said you can smoke five poisons.

With the wine and the male yellow in the child's forehead to draw a king.

Other local Dragon Boat Festival customs are: hanging Zhong Kui statue, hanging calamus, mugwort, swim in the hundred diseases, wear a scented capsule, prepare sacrifices, dragon boat racing, kite flying, batting, swinging, give children a bath of bitter herbs and wheat medicines, drinking calamus wine, eating five poisons cake, salted eggs, zongzi and seasonal fresh fruits, dragon boat racing, hanging calamus ` Artemisia annua, mugwort, fumigation of Cangzhu, Angelica dahurica and drinking Xionghuang wine and other customs.

The Dragon Boat Festival is to commemorate the patriotic poet Qu Yuan threw himself into the river and perished, there are some differences between the north and south of the country.